Farming in the Sahara Desert

Chenghuang Oasis Company Contracts 3,000 Acres of Desert in North Africa!

Mysterious New Company, Chenghuang Oasis, Makes a Big Move Renting the Sahara Desert!

How to Make Money Renting a Desert? Chenghuang Oasis Company's Motives Remain a Mystery!

These days, anything that has the words "Chenghuang" attached to it brings its own traffic. The slightest breeze will have the media rushing to report it, and news quickly pops up online.

Nosy netizens gathered to watch, with opinions flying everywhere.

"Chenghuang Oasis Company? Is it a fake company trying to ride the name?"

"Are they contracting the desert to mine? I heard there are a lot of minerals in the desert, but I've never heard of this company. Why isn't a big mining company getting involved?"

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"Reselling sand? North Africa just finished a war, and many cities need sand for reconstruction? That's not right, sand is worthless there!"

"Could it be some new form of money laundering? These money-laundering companies really need to be controlled!"

"Looking at the company information, it's an agricultural company. Are they going to farm in the desert?"

"Farming is ridiculous. Farming in the Sahara Desert is just farming loneliness. Even a fool knows that nothing grows there."

Netizens didn't pay too much attention. Some guessed it was for farming, but they were quickly ridiculed, and the heat gradually subsided.

At the same time as the news broke, Xia Wansan had finished more than a dozen vaccinations and boarded a plane to North Africa, traveling thousands of miles to set up the initial base.

Ling Yiyi and Pu Songchun also flew to North Africa a few days later to meet up with Xia Wansan. The three young founders of Chenghuang Oasis Company officially went deep into the vast desert to start a life of drinking sand and farming.

The 3,000 acres of experimental fields in the Sahara Desert were not connected, but scattered across six countries. You can't put all your eggs in one basket. They had to test the yields of Desert-to-Soil Conversion farmland in different locations to prepare for expanding the lease area in the next step.

Of course, the experimental fields wouldn't be in the heart of the desert, but at the boundary between the desert and barren soil. In this kind of location, the sand wouldn't flow like waves, and it could be fixed with a little adhesive. There were also towns within a few dozen kilometers, which was already the limit for wasteland reclamation and farming.

The sea and land transportation lines for Ling Bacteria Adhesive hadn't been established yet, so they could only use air transport. Planes took off from China, heading to North Africa via the Middle East route, loaded with Ling Bacteria Adhesive and fertilizer. Insecticides weren't needed for the time being. There weren't any insect swarms eating Green Vegetables near the desert yet, but there were many snakes and scorpions, so they needed to prepare antivenom.

Ling Yiyi, Pu Songchun, and Xia Wansan were leaders who oversaw the overall situation. The ones who really did the work were two teams of people.

One team was mainly college students and vegetable farmers, recruited from major agricultural Universities and vegetable Bases across the Nationwide, responsible for farming with all their might.

The other team was mainly veterans, recommended by the state-owned enterprise shareholders. After landing, they formed a security team with guns, and were even equipped with Reconnaissance-Strike Drones and mortars. After all, the war had just stopped, and there might be roaming bandits. When there were no enemy situations, the security team also helped with odd jobs, such as carrying fertilizer bags, catching snakes, driving people around, and cooking.

The first task for the experimental fields was to dig wells. Local Chinese construction companies were stationed there, and they got to work at lightning speed after being paid. They quickly dug deep wells in just a few days. The groundwater was plentiful, enough to irrigate the farmland.

With water, the next step was Desert-to-Soil Conversion. Bags of Ling Bacteria Adhesive were poured into the yellow sand, mixed with water, turning large areas of loose sand into sticky mud. After waiting for two days to observe the soil quality and confirm that the soil was in good condition, they immediately began sowing!

The first batch of crops planted were all leafy Green Vegetables, and some small shrubs were planted on the edges of the farmland to block the wind and sand.

White plastic film covered the farmland, and water evaporated from the soil covered the plastic film, then dripped down continuously.

The three Top Scorers sat on planes every day, flying from one experimental field to another, sleeping on the plane and working when they got off, constantly running around.

Song He received photos and reports from his students every day, and could tell that the conditions were indeed harsh. On windy days, the yellow sand rolled everywhere. Ling Yiyi sent a photo of her using a stick to pick up a dead snake. The photo sent by Xia Wansan was even more shocking. Pu Songchun was sitting cross-legged next to a skeleton, chanting words to help the dead soul pass on.

"Where did the human bones come from?" Song He asked.

"They were dug up while farming. Several bodies were dug up from several experimental fields. There were bones, and also corpses with flesh, all dried out, hard like beef jerky," Xia Wansan explained.

Song He exclaimed, what a situation! The conditions were more severe than expected. No wonder the lease fee was so cheap. Who could stand having dead people in the sand? You dig and they don't even make a sound.

When they first arrived in the desert, the students were still like students, but after just a week, they were no different from vegetable farmers. Their faces were tanned red, their clothes were covered with a layer of light white salt, and their shoes and pants were covered with mud and sand. They also looked particularly haggard due to the irregular schedule.

However, the three Top Scorers smiled especially happily when taking photos, because the vegetables in the fields were growing vigorously. Many vigorously growing vegetables had broken through the plastic film, and they were lush and green under the sunlight. You could feel the good taste just by looking at the photos.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

The photos from the site almost looked like a miracle. All around was rolling yellow sand, but in the middle was a large green vegetable field. If someone lost in the desert saw it from afar, they would definitely think it was a mirage, or that they were hallucinating from thirst.

As the acceptance period approached, the employees of Chenghuang Oasis Company began to secretly do one thing: kill the vegetables!

They destroyed a large number of vigorously growing vegetables, pulling some out, letting some die of drought, and severely plucking the leaves of the rest. In just two days, the yield of all the experimental fields plummeted by 40%.

The reason for killing the vegetables was very simple: to get a more favorable price in the upcoming negotiations.

The 3,000-acre experimental fields were a great success, with yields approaching those of normal vegetable fields. The entire company was extremely excited, and Song He decided to expand on a large scale, quickly leasing astronomical amounts of land while the countries of North Africa still didn't recognize the potential of Desert-to-Soil Conversion farmland, saving as much as possible on lease fees.

Soon, the first batch of vegetables was harvested and reported statistically.

The second round of desert lease negotiations began.

Song He expected this round of negotiations to be lengthy, because the land he wanted was truly too vast in area. Unexpectedly, the North African countries were so eager to make money that they swiftly passed the lease contract in just three days and officially signed it!

The final content of the contract almost made Song He feel like he was taking advantage of people, but it was a case of one willing to hit and the other willing to be hit, so it could only be said to be a win-win situation.

"Chenghuang Oasis Company Leases 2 Million Mu of Desert in North Africa, Lease Term 60 to 99 Years!"

"Multiple North African Countries Issue Desert Agricultural Development Plan, Designating 20 Million Mu of Agricultural Zone"

"Chenghuang Oasis Company Enjoys Extraterritorial Protection in Multiple North African Countries!"

"Desert Agriculture? Chenghuang Oasis Makes a Big Move to Enclose Land, with the Longest Lease Term of 99 Years!"

"Ten Yuan Per Mu Per Year? Chenghuang Oasis Company Leases Desert at Ultra-Low Price!"

The news broke intensively and quickly soared to the Trending Search!