Liang Wenyu had hurried back because he had heard someone say a car had entered the village and headed toward their house. He guessed Li Long had come.
"Level the land? You mean flatten it with a bulldozer?" Liang Wenyu asked as he took off his overcoat.
"Yes. The Experimental Field for drip irrigation needs Drip Irrigation Tape laid down, so the land has to be level, or the water won't flow through," Li Long explained. "It doesn't have to be perfectly flat, just free of hollows and bumps."
"That's easy enough." Liang Wenyu smiled. "Your Cooperative has done well this year. We were discussing it at a township meeting, saying cooperatives might be the future of agricultural development."
"We'll see. We're still finding our way," Li Long said with a smile. "It's only been a year. Let's give it a few more."
He did not dare make grand claims in front of Liang Donglou, either. After they chatted for a while, Liang Donglou went to the kitchen to help Chen Xiuzhu strip meat from the bones, and Liang Wenyu asked about farming with drip irrigation.
Li Long gave him a brief explanation, making it clear that it could not yet be widely adopted, but that it was the way of the future.
Although Liang Wenyu's village did not have as much land as the Fourth Team, it would have three or four thousand mu if all its wasteland were reclaimed. Later, it would mainly grow cotton too-though for now it mainly grew vegetables, and would continue to do so for quite a few years.
But Ma County had only so many people, and too many nearby villages grew vegetables. Eventually, the market could not absorb them all. Those vegetables could not break into the markets in Wu City and