Chapter 966
Seeing Yang Rui nod his head, Director Jiao suddenly became emotional.
To be honest, China Animal Husbandry Corporation has been coveting this embryo transfer technology for not a day or two.
As we all know, the level of animal husbandry in China is quite low, and the level of breeding is as weak as a firefly.
The breed of pigs is a little bit better. We can talk about the taste without talking about the output—of course, it’s impossible not to talk about the output, because the pig raising companies want to make money, and the pig farmers have to support their families. Therefore, Chinese pigs In the end, they are basically British and American breeds and Danish breeds, which are commonly known as foreign three-yuan hybrids: Duroc pigs, large Yorkshire pigs and Landrace pigs.
But no matter what, we introduced Yang Sanyuan very early. Chinese people have been able to eat foreign pig breeds since the 1960s. By the 1980s, ordinary Chinese could occasionally eat meat, and leaders could eat big The big meat is all thanks to foreign pig breeds-the slaughter period of domestic pigs in China generally exceeds half a year, and it takes a year if they are not fed feed, which is twice the time required by foreign pig breeds, and the cost is more than doubled. In the era of insufficient supply, there are fewer things, and it is naturally more difficult for ordinary people to eat.
The gap between chicken breeds is much greater. KFC’s white-feathered chickens are slaughtered in 40 days, and two catties of feed can be converted into one catty of chicken. Compared with the time and energy of a generation of scientists, it may be easier to make a chicken grow four wings. By extension, a chicken breed that can convert a pound of chicken with three catties of feed in 60 days is to grow four wings , the profit is not as good as that of white-feathered chickens, and chicken breeds with a higher feed-to-cost ratio after 90 days to slaughter, if there is any economic significance, it is also the interests of marketers, and has nothing to do with animal husbandry or farmers.
Duck breeds are historically good. Peking duck is a famous duck in the world, and it has spread to all countries in the world as early as more than a hundred years ago. However, because the British people think that Peking duck is too greasy, the great British scientist and farmer spent many years, The fast-growing lean-meat ducks have been researched and bred for export—after years of development, the fast-growing lean-meat ducks from the United Kingdom have finally been sold all over China, so that the original species of Peking and Peking ducks have no offspring. In scientific terms In other words, the genetic information of the species is lost. Therefore, Quanjude in Beijing also uses British-bred ducks—eating meat and thinking it is fat is the eighth worst crime in the world.
Pigs, chickens and ducks are so miserable, and cattle and sheep are naturally even more miserable.
China's Luxi yellow cattle are considered a good breed of cattle, but if you compare it with any cattle, it is indeed worse than a star and a half in the world. Therefore, the three most widely distributed cattle in China are the Qinchuan cattle used for labor, the Nanyangyang cattle used for labor and the Luxi cattle used for meat.
Unfortunately, by 1985, gentle temperament, smooth movement and strong pulling power were no longer the evaluation criteria for cattle.
Consumers don't care if a cow is docile when it's alive,
It doesn't even care how much material it can pull, and the farm doesn't even care. The docile cows are also released, and the frantic cows are also released. The point is whether the meat produced is too much, and whether foreigners like it or not.
Naturally, foreigners don’t like to eat Chinese cattle. The largest cattle weigh only 500 kilograms, or 1,000 kilograms. Common foreign cattle breeds, such as Simmental cattle, have the smallest bulls weighing 800 kilograms. After fattening It is easy to grow to 1,000 kg, and the good ones can grow to 1,200 kg, which is more than twice the size of the largest Chinese cattle. The so-called strong body can make fat, and the high price standards such as marble pattern, etc., are easy to produce with large and fat cattle.
China Animal Husbandry Corporation wants to earn foreign exchange through export, so it is unreliable to rely on pigs, chickens and ducks, and can only rely on cattle.
The China Animal Husbandry Corporation also has Simmental cattle, but the price of purebred breeding cattle is extremely high. After they introduced hundreds of cattle, they bred more than a thousand by themselves, and they could no longer bear the loneliness.
Animal husbandry is really a lonely industry.
A cow usually only gives birth to one calf. Twins can be news, and triplets are even more unpredictable. In other words, if you want to breed more than a thousand purebred Simmental cattle to hundreds of thousands of millions At a commercial level, ten years are not enough.
In ten years, the current general manager will retire.
Therefore, in recent years, the China Animal Husbandry Corporation has been engaged in crossbreeding of cattle breeds, using Simmental bulls and Chinese yellow cattle to crossbreed, which can rapidly expand the population size, but needless to say, the meat quality and meat production are much inferior to the original breed.
Embryo transfer was a revolutionary achievement.
It can allow any Chinese cattle to give birth to purebred Simmental cattle.
With this kind of technology, a steady stream of fine-bred cattle can be born, instead of spending decades to expand the population like the British, Americans or Japanese did in history.
Director Jiao looked at Yang Rui eagerly, and said, "Yang Yan, let me tell you the truth, we have been cooperating with the Animal Husbandry Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for these years, and our own research institute has also done a lot of work, but the embryo transfer , has been in the experimental stage..."
Director Jiao whispered: "Our general manager has already sent a message. If anyone can solve this technical difficulty, 10 million funds and 10,000 yuan will be rewarded personally!"
A personal reward of 10,000 yuan can be regarded as a heavy reward, but Yang Rui scoffed at the 10 million yuan in funding.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to do this job." Yang Rui declined, "It's probably useful for you to give the Institute of Animal Husbandry 10 million yuan. I have to start from scratch. To be honest, 10 million yuan is not enough."
"What is ten million not enough?" Wen Zelin was quite astute when he heard about the money.
Director Jiao smiled wryly, said roughly, and said helplessly: "There is still a lot to do in this research field. Yang Yan, I am not saying that if you point to Peking University to give you funding, I am afraid that it will not be enough for your status. You Who is it? Nominated for the Nobel Prize, and now that the law is set to come out, let me say bluntly, how much funding does Peking University have for a year? Can they afford you? Sooner or later, you still have to come out have a look."
As the person in charge of the capital region of a central enterprise, he really has the confidence to say this.
Among other things, the 200,000 to 300,000 cows under his control alone are worth hundreds of millions. The value of other agricultural products is not low. In this era when ordinary people are still eating second-class flour, state-owned farms are not considered weak.
Wen Zelin was in a daze when he heard it, and asked Yang Rui, "I just said that I want to do scientific research. Ten million is not enough for you to build?"
"Zao" means tossing, Yang Rui said angrily: "Do you think the span from basic biology to animal husbandry is small? 10 million to buy equipment, get some consumables, and do some experiments will be gone, just Speaking of cows, one head costs a lot of money."
"We provide cattle for free." Director Jiao said, and then followed up: "The number is limited, but there must be."
"In this case, the research results will be given to you for free. I will waste my time besides doing a lot of animal husbandry research." Yang Rui is not dissatisfied with this distribution model. From the perspective of ordinary researchers, it is good to have funds , There is no need to think about patents or anything.
However, Yang Rui is no ordinary researcher after all.
As far as the world is concerned, he is also a second-tier scholar, one of the elite scientists. His research project is naturally a breeding project, not a company or group can conceive by taking off their skirts.
Director Jiao also understood this truth, he thought for a while, and said: "Yang Yan, let's first talk about whether this embryo transfer project can be done. If you say it can be done, then you can put forward conditions, and I will fight for it from above."