Famine due to crop failure

It's July.

Five days without rain a small drought, ten days without rain a major drought, a month without rain smoke.

After the heavy rain, there has been no rain for a month.

The whole land is in ruins, and many former farmlands are full of ravines.

In the base, due to the water storage in the previous mountain pond, the water level of this mountain pond is pulled to the highest.

At this time, the continuous dry weather for a month, so that the water of this mountain pond, also decreased day by day.

At this time, the water in the mountain pond has been reduced by one third.

In this base, everyone has saved water, but in the farmland, the consumption of water is the largest, but at this stage, this is a necessity.

Li Yu is very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of drip irrigation. In terms of the advantages, theoretically speaking, drip irrigation does save water, fertilizer and labor.

However, there are many problems in practice. The first is that the hair drop is easy to clog, and there are basic requirements for the water quality used for drip irrigation, at least to ensure that it is clean and free of impurities.

Planting field crops, two seasons a year, the sowing form is complex, and the installation of drip irrigation equipment is too troublesome.

Installation of drip irrigation crops, must not be mechanized farming harvest, otherwise disassembly and unloading trouble, dragging in the soil is also easy to block drip irrigation holes.

Just like field crops corn, wheat, peanuts, sweet potatoes, potatoes, beans, etc., all need to plow the soil, rake and replant the whole bed after the installation of dropper equipment is not labor-saving but laborious.

All in all, it also depends on whether the crops are suitable for installing drip irrigation, and it is necessary to consider all aspects of factors, not suitable for paper talk, and it must be adapted to local conditions.

Is it convenient to harvest from planting? Are there external conditions? Does it cost enough? And so many aspects of comprehensive consideration.

In these last days the most important thing is to survive, then to meet the needs of the staple food, nothing more than rice, corn, wheat, sweet potatoes, potatoes.

Rice can not use drip irrigation, because it needs to be planted in water, simple drip irrigation can not meet the growth of plants.

Potatoes, corn, etc., need to plow the soil, raking and then re-planting the whole bed, installing the dropper equipment, a laborious and time-consuming.

Moreover, similar to this dry weather, although the time will occur, but Li Yu is in this place, in the subtropical monsoon climate, the annual precipitation is still sufficient.

Therefore, Li Yu did not intend to use drip irrigation equipment from the beginning. The reason why we chose to build the base here is because there is a large mountain pond. Can meet the use of water.

Now, wait for the drought season to pass, waiting for the arrival of the rainy season.

In the farmland, under the sun exposure, the water in the farmland evaporates very quickly, and basically every 3 or 5 days, water must be released from the mountain pond.

Fortunately, the whole mountain pond is no longer used to irrigate the farmland of each family, but is only concentrated in these few acres of fields in this base. Consumption is not that exaggerated.

Hot days, still going on, drought, everywhere.

There are repeated scenes of survivors moving their homes due to water problems.

During the relocation process, some people died on the road because of exhaustion; Some people died of heatstroke without effective help; There are also people who starve to death alive.

At the base, there's a big rivalry going on.

In Li Yu's plan, the future development plan of the base has two ways to go, one is to expand the sphere of influence. The advantage is that more people work better, the strength is strong, and you can better protect yourself. The disadvantage is that the core problem of everything cannot get around the word food. In these last days, if there is not enough food, no matter how many people are, they will be a burden.

The other way is to take the line of elite soldiers, all the people are soldiers, and enhance the overall power among the limited personnel. The advantage is that fewer people are easier to manage, and the pressure on food is not so great, but the disadvantage is that the overall strength is certainly not better than the large number of groups.

At this stage, Li Yu is taking the second road to improve the overall quality of personnel. At the same time, it acquired more firearms firepower in the early days.

But sooner or later, the bullets will run out, and in these last days, there will be a natural disaster from time to time, and it will be easy for some groups to collapse.

Years after the end times, rain, drought, snow, cold. Keep destroying the world. Destroyed a lot of industrial equipment.

Also let mankind gradually enter the era of cold weapons.

Human civilization is gradually being destroyed.

In the face of the most critical survival, food is the ultimate essential element.

If you maintain a sufficient food supply, you can really survive.

The reborn Li Yu knows one thing very well.

There is no power in this world, no son of an age, to lead humanity back to civilization.

Some, but endless despair, endless sadness.

Mankind can only survive in this end-time environment.

Another evening, Li Yu went to the field to observe the planting of rice and corn.

Not close, he saw grandpa is lifting up the trouser legs, the field will be blocked, the field side of some small gaps repair.

Hearing the footsteps, Grandpa straightened up, looked up and saw Li Yu, and said, "Xiao Yu, why are you here?"

"Grandpa, the weather is so hot, you should come out less, don't get sunstroke." I came to see the crops." Li Yu replied.

Grandpa used the towel on his shoulder to wipe a handful of sweat, and his eyes were anxious: "The water on the mountain pond is getting less and less, and I don't know when this drought season will end, ah." Your uncle said that the water in the well we drilled before has become much less. That's not a good sign."

Hearing grandpa's worried words, Li Yu was also a little worried. According to his reborn memory, this drought lasted two months. Now the water in the mountain pond alone can still be used to end the drought.

"Grandpa, let me help you." Li Yu also rolled up his trouser legs and went down to the field to repair some small gaps on the edge of the field. Avoid water flowing out, you know, water is precious now, this water is used to grow crops, let the water flow out of these gaps, no doubt a waste.

As of now, many of the flowers and plants in the garden have dried up and died.

In addition to the few big osmanthus trees, occasionally water, other flowers and plants, can only let them die.

In this world, every time there is war, every time there is drought, every time there is food crisis, there is migration.

Even the last days are no exception.

Far away from the base, there is a large group moving south.

They don't know where they're going, but they stay where they are, waiting to die.

The materials in the original place have been cleaned up, and many people have to move to other places.

There are also groups that want to try to grow crops, but can't survive the prolonged drought.

The crops finally died, and they were desperate, and needed to prepare some food in advance while there was still some.

Eventually they were forced to find food elsewhere.