Bunta City's spring plowing ended that year with results as impressive as ever.
During the previous year's spring plowing, Bunta City's total wheat harvest had reached an astonishing 630,000 tonnes, a staggering figure that ranked it among the leading cities in the Lampari Kingdom.
For a small city like Bunta City, whose farmland area ranked near the bottom in the Lampari Kingdom, this was an exceptional achievement. Everyone believed that, with the help of Farmland Magic Machinery, Bunta City had already tapped all its potential and could never surpass that figure.
Yet when that year's spring plowing ended, the City Lord's Manor's figures showed that Bunta City had harvested a total of 870,000 tonnes of wheat!
That was a full 240,000 tonnes more than the previous year's spring harvest!
Two years earlier, Count Samo's farmland improvement project had already used the Farmland Magic Machinery provided by the Xinfei Merchant Guild to bring every cultivable patch of land in Bunta City under cultivation. Now, whenever planting season came, crops were sown in almost every available spot.
In theory, then, Bunta City's grain production should already have reached its peak the previous year.
There was only one reason for this latest astonishing breakthrough: another important product from the Xinfei Merchant Guild-fertilizer.
Statistics from this spring plowing showed that fields treated with fertilizer yielded significantly more than those without it.
In the most extreme cases, the yield from the same area of land was nearly double!
During winter planting, many villages outside Bunta City, including Korol Village, Kambia Village, and Mexilan Village, had used fertilizer. The additional harvest had come from those fertilized fields.
According to the City Lord's Manor's estimates, if every field outside Bunta City could be treated with fertilizer, even a conservative estimate put the city's grain production for a