They had more or less agreed on the first few points. What came next was the more crucial business.
"Since everyone has saline-alkali land, I think we should calculate it at a yield of fifty kilos per mu. At the current wheat price, that comes to fifteen yuan a mu," Xie Yundong said. "Work it out for your own families. A hundred mu would count as fifteen hundred shares.
"Of course, if you're including established farmland, we'll use the production team's yield figure plus thirty percent. For example, the good land over by that canal used to have a team-assigned yield of two hundred kilos, but in reality, it can produce at least two hundred and fifty or sixty now. No objections to that?"
No one objected. With chemical fertilizer, the yields of their existing land had all increased. As for the saline-alkali land, never mind fifty kilos-in the past, even thirty kilos wasn't guaranteed. But with the specialized fertilizer, fifty kilos was the baseline yield.
Everyone began calculating. The Li family had the most. Li Jianguo and Li Long discussed it quietly. Besides the newly reclaimed two hundred and eighty mu, they would include some of their original land, both wasteland and established farmland. Altogether, the land alone gave the Li brothers five or six thousand shares.
The others were mostly around fifteen hundred shares each. Those with less than a hundred mu joked that once spring came next year, they would apply to the team to reclaim some more saline-alkali land beside their own plots, bringing them up to a neat hundred mu.
"Next are the farm implements," Xie Yundong continued. "Let's go through them one by one. As we said earlier, one yuan counts as one share. Land is one part, and farm implements are another. Since