Promptly updating agricultural conditions every year was an important task of the East African government, because agriculture was one of the main sources of East African government tax revenue. Moreover, East African agriculture had yet to take shape and was expanding continuously every year, making timely data updates essential.
Ernst said, "Now that the war is over, the focus of East Africa's development must return to the economy. Agriculture is an important safeguard for industrial and economic development, so after resolving the security crisis, maintaining the stable and orderly development of East African agriculture is an important task for every agricultural department."
Without question, agriculture was one of the ballast stones of East African economic development, and if East Africa was to develop industry next, it would inevitably have to obtain more capital and raw materials from agriculture.
The best approach was to continuously increase agricultural production and agricultural exports. As for causing international prices for grain, agricultural raw materials, and the like to fall, that was not East Africa's first concern.
Just as the Far East Empire had devoted itself to developing cheap-labor factories from the end of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, it had truly been a choice forced upon it by circumstance. If you would not even undertake the most basic labor-intensive industries, there were plenty of people abroad who would, and their labor costs were lower.
Once the opportunity was missed, however, European and American industrial relocation would shift toward regions such as India and Africa. At worst, the United States could also shift it toward South America and the Middle East.
Vastly unlike the twenty-first century, agriculture remained the primary source of income for most countries in the nineteenth century, and likewise the only channel through which non-colonial countries could accumulate