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Chapter 790 Competition

As soon as the notice was issued, the people were even happier, especially those villages that had already won the top three in the competition in the provincial capital.

On October 12, the weather was fine. The Xichang Prefecture's Hundred Villages Corn Planting Competition officially kicked off. In the large square in front of the government office, a full thirty teams were present.

Each team carried 1,000 kilograms of corn and stood there in an orderly manner. However, a large group of people gathered around the venue. It was a sea of ​​people.

Logically speaking, as long as there are 30 teams qualified to participate, five or six people from each team would be enough. However, the people just like to join in the fun.

Therefore, even those villagers who did not rank in the top three in the county or state also rushed over, especially the village heads and county magistrates.

Although my village is no longer eligible to win the prize, I still want to know who will win. I also want to know the per-acre yield of other villages and counties, so that my village and county will have goals to strive for in the future.

As for the villages that had already qualified to participate in the government competition, almost all the villagers came out, bringing their families, to join in the fun at the government office.

As a result, the area around the government square was crowded with people, and the surrounding streets and alleys were also crowded with people. Among them, there were many students. These students also had a day off on the Double Ninth Festival.

Hualei already knew the answer to the top three cities in corn planting, because there were officials from the government office who had compiled the statistics of the data submitted by the ten prefectures.

During the harvest period, some people went down to various state capitals to conduct secret inspections, and when distributing corn seeds, they also recorded the number of acres planted.

When tax grain is collected, it is also collected according to the actual per-acre yield. So the data is actually available, and there is no need to worry about the village falsifying the data.

Because once the data is falsified, they will have to pay a lot more taxes, which is something the people, who regard food as their own, will not be willing to do.

Moreover, Hua Lei also issued a notice in advance regarding fraud. Once any county or state capital was found to have committed fraud, the prefect would directly hold the people accountable, and the entire village would be severely punished.

Therefore, whether it is the county magistrate or the prefect, there is no need to bring disaster upon yourself. The common people dare not do it even more. However, she is still not satisfied with the per-acre yield of corn in the villages below.

Because she found that the corn yield per acre in several villages reached 750 kilograms, which was comparable to the corn yield of 800 kilograms per acre in Shangjing City.

However, the per-acre yield of corn in several villages was only 420 kilograms. This figure was even lower than the per-acre yield in Shangjing City when the corn stalks fell down due to heavy rain and were not straightened.

Such a low per-acre yield should be unlikely if irrigation is timely, fertilizer is sufficient, and there is no extreme weather.

When Hualei first received the data, she didn't believe it, thinking that the village chief or the county magistrate had falsified the data in order to hide the corn.

Therefore, Rong Jin sent secret guards to these low-yield villages to check the situation on the spot. However, after the secret guards came back, they reported that they did not falsify the information.

However, there are reasons why the per-acre yields of these villages are so low. The heads of two villages are old and unable to do their job.

During the corn planting period, I never attended any agronomy classes or went to any agronomy consulting offices. I just distributed the corn seeds and thought that was the end of the job.

The villagers had no experience and no one to guide them, so they just planted crops blindly, especially during the fertilization stage. Because they had no experience and did not know how to grasp the timing, they did not apply fertilizer in time, so the yield per mu was definitely not high.

There are also two village chiefs who are illiterate. They were elected as village chiefs only because they are usually fair and enthusiastic about helping to solve the family problems of each family in the village. They have a high prestige in the village.

However, they have little experience in how to grow corn and increase its yield, so the per-acre yield of corn in the village is low.

Of course, there are also a few village heads who, although they are young, can read and write, and have taken agricultural courses, but they are rather short-sighted.

He only cared about the corn seedlings in his own field and wanted his family to get the title of "champion household" in corn cultivation, but he did not pass on what he had learned to everyone.

So, after the corn was harvested, the yield per mu of his own corn field was very high, but that of the villagers' fields was not high.

Of course, there are also village heads who are in high esteem but slack off at work. Every day they just shout in the village, asking villagers to grow corn well in order to get a good fortune.

As for how to grow corn and how to increase the yield per mu, he couldn't answer a single question. It would be strange if the yield per mu was high.

Of course, there are also several villages whose problems are caused by the geographical environment of the corn fields. Some corn fields are wasteland that was reclaimed in the first year. Without increasing the amount of fertilizer according to local conditions, the yield per mu is certainly not high.

There are also some corn fields that are far away from the irrigation water source, so the irrigation is not timely and the water supply is insufficient, so the corn kernels are not full.

Another thing is that they don’t know about crop rotation. The fields that were planted with corn last year are still planted with corn this year. In the absence of pesticides, many diseases and insect pests have appeared in the corn fields this year, resulting in a reduction in corn production.

Therefore, there is a reason why Hualei asked the thirty teams and thirty "champion households" candidates to each bring one thousand kilograms of corn.

On the one hand, it allows these highly productive villages to show off in front of the people of Xichang Prefecture and satisfy their sense of honor.

On the other hand, it also allows the villagers, village heads, and county magistrates whose per-acre yields are particularly low to see the gap in themselves and give them an achievable goal.

Other villages can grow it, so why can't my village grow it? Once people have a goal and someone they want to catch up with, it will definitely help with the planting in their own village later.

Then let them sit down and exchange planting experiences with each other, learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses. This will also play a very important role in promoting the future planting of corn in Xichang Prefecture.

Finally, Hualei also wants to see the quality of corn grown in each high-yield village. If the corn is good and especially plump, Hualei will use it as seeds for planting next year and continue to promote it vigorously.

As for those unqualified village heads, Hua Lei will find some time after the competition to discuss with the prefects and county magistrates how to eliminate the unqualified.