Chapter 56: Introducing Seeds (Continue to ask for recommendations on seed companies!!)After ending the call with Wu Feng, Guo Yang thought of Yu Honghai who had just left for two days. The two have reached a preliminary agreement on jointly investing in agricultural machinery and equipment. Yu Honghai will participate in the investment through his Weifang Guwo Machinery Co., Ltd., but Guo Yang has not yet decided on the specific business model to adopt. He was just interested in Yu Honghai's marketing channels and the connections he had accumulated, and was not really interested in forming a joint venture with him. It would be great if we could acquire it, Guo Yang thought. With so many things to do, Guo Yang felt overwhelmed for the first time. In the past two days, Yang Cheng, the general manager of Capital Investment Company, also called him every day. "Boss, do you want to close your position? The price has risen sharply in the past half month. I suggest you take profits in time." Guo Yang has heard the same words countless times, and every time he would patiently ask them to continue to increase their positions as long as the margin ratio was maintained. But Yang Cheng still reports once or twice a day.
It is annoying, but at least it is a happy trouble. Moreover, foreign futures and registration of Hong Kong companies are also being gradually implemented. Coming back to his senses, Guo Yang looked at the 62 points of natural energy in the seed store, wondering which varieties to cultivate. Corn, wheat, cotton, soybeans, peppers or something else? These days, alfalfa farmers have begun to sow alfalfa, but the rate of natural energy acquisition has slowed down. It seems that it will be difficult to quickly obtain natural energy before the alfalfa stubble is returned to the fields next year. Fortunately, the remaining land should still be able to provide dozens of points, adding up to about one hundred and twenty to thirty points that can be used to cultivate seeds. Guo Yang roughly calculated that the engineering improvement of 20 acres of saline-alkali land could provide him with a little over points of natural energy. On average, 1000 point is awarded for every 1 acres. Ordinary alfalfa can also improve the soil environment. Combined with the return of biological resources to the fields, perhaps we can obtain some natural energy in the next one or two years. But it is hard to say. After all, the saline-alkali soil in the middle and lower layers has not been improved by engineering, and the salt is likely to rise again through groundwater. Only after Alfalfa No. 1 is planted on a large scale can the improvement of 20 acres of saline-alkali land be considered complete. Overall, Guo Yang could accept it, as it was much less troublesome than building his own scientific research and breeding system. Those multinational seed companies invest more than one billion dollars in research and development every year, but their breeding efficiency is far less than his. However, domestic large, medium and small seed companies have invested millions, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in research and development every year for several years or even more than ten years, but often still find it difficult to cultivate valuable varieties. More often, the rights to new plant varieties are transferred from scientific research institutions through auction or other means. At the beginning of the opening of the domestic seed market, large orders worth tens of millions of yuan had already appeared. In 2005, the highest transfer price for a single new rice variety in my country - 1000 million yuan - was generated in Jinling. In 2008, Longping Hi-Tech bought the exclusive use rights of Liangyou 1128 for 1180 million yuan, setting a record for the highest bid for hybrid rice. In 2010, at the auction of the transfer rights of crop varieties in the capital, a private enterprise in the capital invested 500 million and 700 million respectively and won the exclusive production and operation rights of two soybean varieties in one fell swoop.
By 2023, the highest record of variety transfer price was pushed up to more than 1600 million yuan by a wheat variety of Xinxiang in Henan Province. But these are extremely rare cases. Many more varieties are stored in an inconspicuous corner of a germplasm resource bank, waiting for the day to be opened again. In the agricultural field, there has always been a problem of disconnection between scientific research and industry: there are many scientific and technological achievements in agriculture, but the conversion rate is very low. The conversion rate of agricultural scientific and technological achievements has been less than 10% for many years. Most of the results are just documents and locked in a drawer. There seems to be an insurmountable gap between the laboratory and the field. Taking the transfer of variety rights as an example, except for a few popular varieties that have achieved high returns of over one million yuan, most of the varieties that have been bred over many years have a transfer price of less than 10 yuan. Most of the time, no one cares. So, when people from the seed company waved their money and contacted various scientific research institutions and universities in the Northwest, they were warmly welcomed. In the end, the seed company acquired the variety rights of more than 100 varieties including corn, wheat, rapeseed, sweet pepper, hot pepper, tomato, potato, cumin, etc. through a buyout. In addition, seed companies also took the opportunity to collect a large number of plant varieties that had passed the protection period from the resource libraries of these colleges. As for the price, I gave a symbolic amount for tea. The transfer prices of the bought-out varieties mostly ranged from 5 to 20 yuan, and occasionally a little more expensive, but in the end the seed company's expected 2000 million yuan in variety rights transfer fees were not spent. From the perspective of these scientific research institutions, many of the accumulated varieties are difficult to be competitive in the market, or lack channels for promotion and transformation. Its minimum requirement for the variety transfer price is to recover the cost, that is, to compensate for the manpower and material resources consumed in the process of breeding the variety. Under Guo Yang's instruction, the seed company was not very strict on the transfer price. Although the price has been reduced, it is still within the acceptable range of scientific research institutions. Guo Yang will select relatively excellent varieties from the collected germplasm resources for targeted breeding. Others can also fill the resource libraries of seed companies. …… With indescribable feelings, Guo Yang called his mentor Weng Lixin. During this period of time, he was consciously avoiding school and home. Now, it's time to face it. A familiar voice came, but Guo Yang didn't know how to start. An alpine grassland ecosystem experimental station is located in a river valley at an altitude of nearly 3000 meters. Weng Lixin stood on the vast grassland, holding his mobile phone and looking at the scenery that he never gets tired of. During the summer vacation, he brought his students to the experimental station to study the mechanism of grassland degradation in alpine pastoral areas. The research was boring, and the only thing that made him feel relieved was that the school finally agreed to allocate funds for a comprehensive renovation of the grassland station yesterday. A full 30!
When has the school ever been so luxurious! This grassland experimental station was built in 1956. A succession of scientific researchers, professors, and academicians have conducted experiments on grassland types, grassland dynamics, grassland improvement, etc., and various advanced theories have been born here. Now he is finally about to have his first restoration. In addition to repairing the laboratories and exterior walls, it is also possible to add some office furniture and teaching facilities to give the experimental station a new look. In the future, we will be able to welcome more teachers and students to come here for teaching and research. He and other professors asked the school for the repair money many times, but the principal always evaded the question with various reasons. I didn't expect that the usually stingy principal would take the initiative to offer some money to repair the grassland experimental station yesterday. It’s not easy! The bell rings. "Hi, hello, who are you?" "Hello? Hello?" After not hearing a reply for a long time, Weng Lixin looked puzzled. "Did you bump into it accidentally?" "Hello? Hello? If you don't say anything, I'll hang up!" Only then did Weng Lixin hear a sigh coming from the phone. "Ugh!" The voice sounded familiar, and he always felt that this person was a little afraid to face him. I thought about it for a while. Weng Lixin reacted immediately and asked hurriedly: "Guo Yang, is it you?" "Yes, it's me." Guo Yang said softly. "You are quite capable. I heard that you went to Jiuquan to cultivate 20 mu of saline-alkali land. Is this what you mean by planting alfalfa?" "I haven't contacted the school or my family for such a long time. Do you think you can forget your relatives now that you are rich..." I listened to the tutor talking on and on, and waited until he had vented most of his anger. Guo Yangcai said, "Teacher, I heard that you have been busy doing research at the experimental station in Xiulong Township recently. Did the principal tell you about the school allocating funds to repair the experimental station?" Hearing this, Weng Lixin immediately understood. "Good boy, so the problem lies with you. Have you donated money to the school?" "Of course not. The school transferred some accumulated plant variety rights to my company. Of course I have money now." Guo Yang said with a smile. "How much money can that make?" Weng Lixin didn't quite believe it, as the school's varieties with high promotional value had already been transferred. How much is the rest worth?
Guo Yang continued, "The school transferred more than 30 varieties to the company, and the transfer fee was two to three million." Weng Lixin’s eyes widened. More than thirty? Are you collecting junk here? (End of this chapter)