After hearing Morse's opinion, Herwien asked Morse to formulate an agricultural development strategy for Kampala city as well. This could also be considered a fine practice in East African governance.
After all, most East African officials did not possess the wealth of experience and family inheritance enjoyed by European aristocratic officials. This made East African officials more reliant on the advice of "experts." The only pity was that there were too few practical experts like Morse.
In Rhine City, Ernst was also listening to a report from professionals of the Ministry of Agriculture.
"By 1898, the nation's cultivated land area had approached 2.5 billion mu. On a global scale, it ranked second only to Russia and the United States. Over the past eight years, newly reclaimed farmland had mainly been concentrated in the central, western, and southeastern regions."
"As cultivated land increased, farmland water conservancy facilities had also expanded in great numbers. More than four million Black laborers had participated in agricultural production, building vast numbers of water conservancy facilities and reservoirs. In the past five years alone, more than twenty thousand new reservoirs had been constructed, greatly improving agricultural productivity."
As a country dominated by a tropical savanna climate, rainfall across most of East Africa was unevenly distributed, especially with stark seasonal differences. Water Conservancy Construction had greatly improved East African agricultural productivity.
Without water conservancy facilities, land across the overwhelming majority of East Africa could only be cultivated once a year. But after reservoirs and other water conservancy facilities were built, ensuring a water supply, much of East Africa's land had risen to two harvests a year, while a small number of areas could even produce three harvests annually.
This meant that without increasing its cultivated land area, East Africa could still double its grain output. From