Chapter 73: The Harvest before the Harsh Winter
"3 tons of bird feces stone... calculating with an average usage of 30 jin per mu, the actual cultivated area must be well over a hundred mu, a lot larger than expected,"
On the way back, Chu Guang pondered as he wrote in his notebook.
"It seems my speculation was correct, they must have applied some no-soil cultivation techniques, and this part accounts for 15% to 30% of the total output... maybe even more."
Brown Farm itself would produce some of the manure and also purchase a little from other merchants, the actual cultivated area is probably larger than imagined.
Before the crossing, Chu Guang had heard about a type of pipe-based no-soil cultivation technology that maximized the use of space and water resources. Provided there was enough fertility, one mu could be used as if it were ten.
In the pre-war era of this world, there seemed to be similar technologies that maximized space utilization to the extreme, developing automated towers that incorporated sowing, nurturing, ripening, harvesting, conveyer belt transportation, packing, and delivery – truly capable of surpassing yields of ten thousand jin per mu.
They were known as CNC planting towers, considered the ultimate form of industrialized planting technology.
Very cyberpunk.
Brown Farm certainly didn’t have such luxurious energy resources, but since they could trade some electricity for grain, their electric power resources must not have been too scarce.
Moreover, having farmed for at least a century, they would have inherited some technology and adapted it to fit the wasteland environment.