On Venus

The testing work on the Jianmu Sky Ladder proceeded in an orderly fashion.

Meanwhile, in Venus's atmosphere, the Yingzhou Island floating city within Venus's Antarctic Circle had gradually expanded to an area of 300 square kilometers.

Below Yingzhou Island lay Shennong Basin, along with the Venus Agricultural Testing Ground built within it.

After more than a year of testing, the Venus Agricultural Testing Ground had gradually completed trials on various crops and farmed animals. Some agricultural products had officially been approved and qualified for mass production.

Another batch of astronauts gradually arrived on Venus to rotate shifts. This time, as many as 284 astronauts had come for the handover.

The Venus Agricultural Testing Ground was divided into two sections: one became the Venus Shennong Company, while the other became the Venus Agricultural Science Institute.

The Venus Agricultural Science Institute naturally continued its testing work on crops and farmed animals.

The newly established Venus Agricultural Company, meanwhile, was responsible for producing agricultural products and processing food, supplying food to the astronauts in the Venus sector.

The population on Venus was still relatively small. Following successive expansions, the agricultural factories in Shennong Basin currently had a total usable area of 8,300 mu. Of that, 3,000 mu belonged to the Agricultural Science Institute, while the rest belonged to the Shennong Company.

More than 200 people had 5,300 mu of agricultural land, averaging over twenty mu per person. That might not have sounded like much.

But this was highly efficient indoor agriculture, rather than open-air farmland dependent on the weather. The difference in production efficiency between the two could be severalfold.

As the Shennong Company's Venus branch, this subsidiary currently had only three employees, all of whom were responsible for production.

Automated robots harvested all the newly ripened sugar beets and sent them into