Chapter 29: Greenhouse Planting (Request for Recommendations and Favorites)
The greenhouse in Chen Xin’s shelter is not large, only one hundred square meters, which is equivalent to one are, one-sixth of a mu of land.
Here, Chen Xin actually made a mistake. When the construction team asked him how large he wanted the greenhouse to be, he miscalculated an are as a mu, resulting in the greenhouse being six times smaller than intended.
In Chen Xin’s original plan, this space was meant for growing upland rice and vegetables, providing him with food for his own consumption and for trading for other resources.
However, due to the calculation error, the output is far from sufficient.
The annual yield of upland rice is about nine hundred jin per mu, and the yield of rice after husking is about seven hundred jin, while one are is only about one-sixth of a mu of land, producing only a little over a hundred jin.
An adult consumes about three hundred jin of rice annually, in addition to an equivalent amount of vegetables and meat. Simply put, if Chen Xin wants to maintain a healthy state, he would need to consume at least five to six hundred jin of food per year.
Considering that future surface temperatures will drop to minus several tens of degrees, sufficient food is crucial for energy supply, and food consumption would likely be more rather than less.
In the limited conditions of the post-apocalypse, Chen Xin no longer counts on meat, but even just with vegetables and rice, the one hundred square meter greenhouse can yield at most three hundred jin of rice annually, even with two seasons of upland rice, with no room left for vegetables.