Yes, it's chemical fertilizer, not manure.
Urea imported from Japan, each piece as big as rabbit droppings, is said to increase production when spread over the fields.
It's something new, foreign to us; even though the state has promoted it, other brigades hesitate to use it. Wang Zhenguo consulted Lu Jiang and soon mobilized everyone to buy fertilizer, bringing back several truckloads, nearly spending all the money on the account.
Unfortunately, it was bought a bit late; the wheat had already been planted.
But it's okay, applying fertilizer now still works just like manure; it just shouldn't be applied too excessively.
The purchased fertilizer was insufficient to cover the entire field, so Wang Zhenguo chose some plots to apply fertilizer, while the rest still received manure. The yield would reveal whether the fertilizer worked.
Zhou Zhou carried a bamboo basket, grabbing handfuls of urea and spreading it evenly over the ground.
