Chapter 1904 Grete: Let’s Happily Make Genetically Modified Crops!

The Nature Order, generations of nature priests, have been doing work in the direction of increasing agricultural production.

Some are engaged in breeding improved seeds, some are improving planting methods, some are making compost, some are doing soil and water conservation, some are doing insecticide and weeding...

The high-ranking priests studied hard, and the low-ranking priests traveled to the fields and taught the farmers step by step how to farm.

Of course, their work has made tremendous progress in recent years.

——Thanks to the need to reserve food in the year without summer, the Magic Council invented a method of producing nitrogen fertilizer from air, and nitrogen fertilizer was in sufficient supply;

In addition, the Parliament's ships regularly hauled struvite back from overseas, and the Parliament's factories regularly used the bitter brine left over from salt production to make potash fertilizer.

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers are well mixed and sold at a price that is not too low but allows farmers to make some profits and save more grain.

The job of the natural priests is to cooperate with the magicians to study the usage and dosage of these fertilizers. What crop, what period - seedling stage, growth stage, booting stage, flowering stage, filling stage, maturity stage...

What fertilizer should be used at which stage, how much, how to mix artificial fertilizer and farm compost, the depth of fertilization, etc., all kinds of knowledge.

Then, teach these methods to the farmers.

——Relying on these studies and work, relying on these efforts, a large number of natural pastors have obtained natural feedback and gained the joy of the world.

According to the statistics of Elder Tapros, since the use of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers began to be promoted, the average advancement speed of nature priests has increased by an average of 10% compared to before the promotion.

This is a tenth increase in speed!

It's so comfortable!

However, such an improvement alone cannot satisfy Elder Tapros, nor can it satisfy the royal family, nobles, or even the magicians.

For the Nature Order, if the improvement speed can be faster, just faster. If it can be 50% faster, it is better, if it can be doubled, it is better——

Look at that Nordmark pastor! That speed is simply nature’s beloved child, loved by the world all the time!

If everyone could advance at his speed, the Natural Order would soon have five legends, six legends, and seven legends...

The royal family and nobles were not satisfied either. Output only increased by 10%? Only a 20% increase? What's that enough?

It's just enough to feed people in normal years. If you save a little, you won't starve to death in disaster years. To be full like this, to be full with a mixture of chaff and wild vegetables, or to be full to eat only black bread.

I want to be able to fill my stomach without eating bran and wild vegetables, I want to be able to eat an egg every day, I want to be able to eat meat once a month... I'm sorry, don't even think about it.

The produce of the land, if I want to feed enough warriors, if I want to double the number of knights... I'm sorry, I can't do it.

The output of the land allows more farmers to leave the land and work in the city without causing a food crisis... Sorry, it can't be done.

With the output of the land, I want to support one more literate person in the village, I want to double the number of people in the town who can study, I want to double the number of apprentices that the Mage Tower can accept every year... Sorry, I still can't do it. arrive.

If you want to achieve this, if you want to further develop the country, if you want to have more manpower, especially high-quality manpower, the fundamental way is to increase agricultural output!

The practice of relying on the power of natural priests to grow crops and reserve food in a short period of time in the Year Without Summer cannot be repeated!

Even if the nature priests are willing to contribute, there will no longer be a demigod's divine crystal to provide them with spell-casting energy...

Gretel spent a whole day flipping through page after page the research reports and research records sent from the Nature Religion.

——The Natural God Church happily compiled the information and handed it over, and at the same time sent someone over to try to persuade Grete to lead this research.

What a great opportunity!

Having such a leader who has repeatedly produced results means that he can guide and inspire a large number of natural pastors and enable a large number of natural pastors to grow quickly.

——Pastor Nordmark Over the years, how many of the researchers around me have advanced! The Legend of Light has advanced a few levels!

Not to mention, Pastor Nordmark’s research ideas and methods are different from those of them... People who follow him can learn a lot...

Moreover, Pastor Nordmark's research can be funded separately from the royal family! It does not conflict with the funds currently received by the Natural Deism! In other words, there is an additional fund...

The projects are given to you, the manpower is given to you, you ask! ! !

Gretel thus received a large amount of information, which was sorted into categories by the Natural Religion Group, written in outline, and sent to them proactively and diligently.

Even with the outline and summary, it took him a full day to finish reading the information. After reading it, I covered my head and thought:

Regarding the use of chemical fertilizers, the mixed use of chemical fertilizers and farmyard manure, irrigation, etc., he could not do any better;

Without petrochemicals, it would be difficult to reduce the cost of greenhouses and other things to a level that farmers can afford;

The natural priests have also done a good job in raising seedlings indoors in order to shorten the growth period and increase crop yields, so there is no need for him to have a hand.

Then, the only thing he can do is to breed superior seeds - or, to be more precise, breed superior seeds in terms of hybridization and genetic engineering.

Anyway, he has as many microscopes and electron microscopes as he needs and tools for studying chromosomes. Chromosome shearing may be a bit difficult. For this, he may need to practice more meteor bursts to rub more diamonds with his hands...

What's important is that the Natural Society has its own unique advantages in the selection and breeding of superior seeds. A variety's characteristics and yield can be quickly spawned using magic, so you can have a rough idea in advance.

There is no need to work hard like in the Agricultural College in his previous life. He had to plant for a year and several years. Finally, he planted the fruits until they were mature. He eagerly waited for those few fruits to be published and the fruits were picked and eaten...

Suddenly, one (or even several) master's and doctoral degrees were postponed.

The fruit picker can't be thrown into jail and convicted of theft.

You’ve decided, let’s go in this direction!

Fortunately, he had already accumulated a lot of experience in chromosome research. Use it on this and see what better effect it can have...

Grete set a research direction, wrote down a whole page of plans, and then worked hard to refine them. After completing the details, he was about to give it to the students to calculate personnel, budget, required materials and equipment, etc., when the pen tip suddenly stopped:

"By the way, there seems to be a way to get immediate results and increase production... Can I ask about their progress first?"