With the vigorous development of the "purge" movement, a large amount of land has been made available, and with the increase in immigration in the future, all of it will inevitably be developed.
The current agricultural system of East African colony is still relatively chaotic. Because the colonial population is too scattered, the cultivation of crops is also very different.
The staple foods include wheat, rice, and corn. Recently, East African colony is also trying to introduce millet cultivation in Kenya. This is what Ernst emphasized. After all, Kenya has a drier climate, especially as you go north, and millet is a very drought-tolerant crop.
In the previous life, East Africa was an important millet-producing area. This place is very suitable for millet cultivation. After all, East Africa has a tropical grassland climate, which is most suitable for growing "grass", and millet came from the domestication of Setaria spp.
These are food crops, and cash crops are even more confusing. East African colony is located in the tropics, and basically all tropical plants can be grown, including sisal, coffee, rubber, cocoa, and all kinds of vegetables and fruits...
If East African colony only considers local food and clothing issues, then you can grow whatever you want. However, as an area that Ernst will vigorously develop in the future, East African colony must prepare for industrialization after all.
If agriculture wants to pave the way for industrialization, it must first carry out modernization reforms and give full play to its scale advantage.
To put it bluntly, East African agriculture has to compete in the market to earn a lot of real money and accumulate the original capital of East Africa.
At present, the best template in the hands of Ernst is Argentina. Argentina is a typical country that started from agriculture, regardless of the various problems in its subsequent industrialization.
Argentina has achieved great success simply by developing agriculture, and East Africa is also similar to Argentina. It is also vast and sparsely populated, and similarly covered with grasslands.
It's just that one is located in the temperate and subtropical zones, and the other is in the tropics, and the land of East African colony is only slightly weaker in fertility than the black land of Argentina.
The amount of precipitation between the two is about the same. In the north of Argentina, rainfall can reach about 1500mm, while in the south, it is only about 600mm. In East Africa, it decreases from east to west, reaching a peak in Great Lakes Region, with the level in the entire region ranging from 600mm to 1500mm.
This level is not bad in the world. Intuitive data: The annual precipitation in the North China Plain area is about 600mm, and it is concentrated in July and August.
East Africa has two rainy seasons, the light rainy season from November to December and the heavy rainy season from April to May.
The main reason why East African colony advocates the development of agriculture is that the cost of developing agriculture is relatively low. As long as the land is reasonably planned and some production tools are improved, the requirements for technology and personnel are not as high as those of industry.
If you want to develop agriculture and adopt a "small-scale farmer economy", it will definitely be a dead end in this era of law of the jungle. It will be unable to protect itself but will be unable to develop. In the end, it will be defeated by the low-cost advantage of large-scale agricultural production.
The distinctive feature of capitalist agriculture is the centralized management of land. The most prominent ones in the contemporary era are "Prussian Model" and "American Model".
Its essence is to concentrate land in the hands of a few people, conduct unified management, impact the market with scale advantages, and capture the market to gain huge profits.
The land property rights of East African colony are directly in the hands of Ernst, so there is no need for top-down reforms like Prussia.
But Ernst itself does not abuse black people, so it is different from the manor of United States.
In this case, Ernst just adopts the large farm model.
All land in East Africa is the private property of Ernst. Immigrants have no property rights and are essentially agricultural workers on farms.
The way to get remuneration is naturally to work more and get more, and to work less and get less.
At present, East African colony directly divides several large agricultural areas according to climate and rainfall, and uniformly grows the same crops in the areas.
The Great Lakes Region, Lake Tanganyika districts in the west, and Lake Malawi Region, East Lake Malawi Region, and Central Plateau Region in the north, and Kenya districts in the south are dominated by wheat cultivation.
It is determined by the eating habits of immigrants and market demand. Whether they are Austro-Hungarian Empire immigrants or immigrants from the Far East and North China, they all have the habit of eating pasta, and the main market for food sales in Europe is naturally wheat-based.
The three Binhai District in the east and the coastal plain area in the east of Kenya are mainly rice cultivation.
To the east of Great Plains Region and Great Lakes Region, and to the north of Northern Plateau Region and Kenya, millet and animal husbandry are developed.
Among them, wheat and animal husbandry are East African colony's main means of generating income besides cash crops.
Both of these have a deep market in Europe. Even if Europe can't squeeze in, Arabs can still take advantage of it. After all, most Arabs rely on commerce and nomadism to survive, and their own output is too little.
The Far East is not considered by Ernst. The main reason is that the Far East is not rich at present, and it is a purely agricultural production area. It is also poor and has huge market competition.
In the previous life, the most popular crops in East Africa were probably corn and cassava, but Ernst still chose wheat when developing East Africa.
Although corn and cassava are high-yielding, they both have certain shortcomings and require higher processing costs than wheat. Moreover, immigrants still focus on wheat cultivation due to their eating habits and the European market.
Economic crops, currently East African colony's largest economic crop is naturally sisal.
In addition to sisal, Ernst plans to plan five important cash crops: oil crop planting, rubber plantation planting, tea planting, cotton planting, and coffee planting.
In addition to these major economic crops, there are also advantageous crops such as cloves and pyrethrum.
In the previous life, East Africa was an important cotton-producing area in Africa. It was grown in all countries in East Africa, so cotton planting was not a problem, and the market was relatively easy to find. With Germany as its backing, it could still be digested on one-third of an acre of German territories.
There are many choices of oil crops, peanuts, sesames, soybeans... and other traditional oil crops can be grown. East African mainland There are also castor and sunflower seeds...
Rubber plantations are mainly planned in coastal areas and areas around Great Lakes Region with relatively abundant water.
Tea is mainly grown in some mountainous and high-altitude areas. Just plant a large amount of black tea as in the previous life. Europeans can't tell the difference anyway.
These are all crops that need to be produced intensively, and the rest will not be discussed in detail. The land and climate conditions in East Africa are simply too superior.
In the previous life, there was a flower industry in East Africa, as well as various tropical fruits and vegetables. Of course, these Ernst are also coveted, but the current technical level is not up to it, and large-scale short-term transportation cannot be achieved.
Even for animal husbandry, Ernst has no way to directly develop it on a large scale in East Africa. The entire region of East Africa is suitable for the development of animal husbandry. The problem is that the preservation technology is too slow.
Unless Ernst initially processes meat in East Africa and makes various pickled foods, this will take time.