Mwanza Aquatic Products Processing Plant.

Workers are pouring the freshly purchased fish into wooden barrels and sending them to the workshop for further processing.

This is a factory built up purely by manpower, and the main product is dried salted fish.

Dried salted fish can be stored for a long time, but it is also convenient for transportation, and can even be carried as military rations.

In this era when preservation technology is not yet mature, East Africa can only produce this traditional product at the current level.

Canning is feasible, but the cost is too high, and canning requires materials such as metal or glass as a carrier, and these two things have no production capacity in East Africa, and can only be considered after the construction of subsequent iron works and glass factories.

And that's just the first step, after all, with the material, there are machines and other processes to consider.

In this era, any metal, even bones, was an important material, and many parts of Europe had to be recycled, and it was impossible for East Africa to have the wealth to provide immigrants with canned food.

It costs to produce it, and it costs to recycle materials, and it is not cost-effective to sterilize or recycle after recycling.

If you want to make a profit, you still have to sell it in Europe, but Europe itself is very competitive, and canned food is not accepted by the public, and it is only popular in the army.

And the armies of all countries have stable suppliers of canned food, and now Ernst cannot intervene, unless there is a shortage of munitions during the war, and the army has a chance to purchase them on a large scale.

The main agricultural products sold by the Heixingen Consortium in Europe are primary agricultural products such as flour and logs.

In those days, it was almost a fantasy to rely on machines to process fish meat, and the first step was to deal with fish scales, so the dried salted fish produced in the East African colonies was completely manual without any machine involvement.

Every day, the Mwanza Seafood Processing Plant receives a large number of fresh freshwater fish from the fishermen that day.

Workers in aquatic product processing factories first use tools to remove fish scales and other debris, and then workers in the next process disembowelment these fish to remove internal organs and gills, and then rinse the surface with water, put the fish yards in a large tank, salt, and finally wear them on a pole to dry and dry.

Unpretentious processing means, but the scale is relatively large, so the production capacity is considerable, Mwanza aquatic products processing plant, currently has more than 500 workers, is the largest salted fish processing plant in East Africa, the products are mainly supplied to the inland and arid areas of East Africa.

After the East African colonies banned the consumption of wild animals, meat-derived alternatives became particularly important.

In East Africa, the government's unilateral slaughter of wild animals and the enclosure of land have led to a drastic reduction in the range of animal movements and the eradication of large numbers of wild animals.

East African immigrants need protein and supplements for manual labor, and there are three solutions: one is to develop East African aquaculture, the second is to raise livestock, and the third is to grow soybeans.

Among the three, aquatic products are readily available, and East Africa has a vast water area, especially many lakes, whether it is fresh water or brackish water, fishery resources are relatively rich.

Livestock need time to breed, and the scale is not large, after all, most of the imports, there is no more than ten years of breeding and growth, basically can not be counted.

Soybeans are the most easily available plant protein, and many of them are widely cultivated in the East African colonies, mainly for crop rotation, soybean nodules have the effect of nitrogen fixation, generally rotated with wheat, and the tropical plateau is also very suitable for soybean cultivation, but it is unlikely to completely replace meat.

Therefore, the protein supplement of East African immigrants still mainly relies on the rich fishery resources of East Africa, and the fish is safer to eat than other wild animals in the East African grasslands.

After the initial pickling process, it can effectively kill the bacteria and parasites in the body.

In places like Mwanza, large quantities of fish are harvested and salted and dried by hand after being manually removed from scales and guts, and the resulting dried fish can be preserved for months in East Africa.

In coastal areas, lakes and rivers, residents can obtain fresh fish, while in waters and areas where fishery resources are scarce, only dried fish can be eaten.

Of course, eating fish alone will certainly not solve the problem, and animal husbandry (aquaculture) is the real way out in the future.

The East African grassland itself is a natural pasture, although it is not of high quality, but the area is definitely large enough, and the uneven distribution of precipitation time is the biggest factor restricting the development of animal husbandry in East Africa, and at the same time, cattle and horses and other livestock cannot be replaced in the next 100 years.

Of course, East Africa cannot only have large livestock such as cattle and horses, and poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese must occupy an important position.

However, large-scale breeding of chickens, ducks, geese and poultry is not easier than that of large livestock such as cattle and horses, and free-range and domestic breeding are safer and less prone to plague, so East African poultry farming mainly relies on immigrants themselves.

There is also a special poultry in East Africa, the guinea fowl, which is also promoted by the East African government.

This thing was once brought to Europe by the Ottoman Empire, and it was called "Turkish chicken", and the meat quality was not bad.

The main thing is that as a rare native breed in Africa, it is much more resistant to diseases, and the guinea fowl will chirp when it sees fire, which can be used to prevent fires.

This was important for the East African colonies, especially during the dry season, when the weather was dry and prone to fires.

Poultry farming plays an important role in East Africa, but it is mainly carried out spontaneously by immigrants, and the grains and other grains they need also need to be solved by immigrants themselves.

As a result, farming is confined to families, raising more and eating more, although it is true that there is a lot of wasteland in East Africa to grow fodder.

However, each settler had to complete tasks in the fields arranged by the East African colonies before they had time to take care of the wasteland they had developed.

The fields allocated to each settler in the East African colonies were not small plots, and a dozen acres of land, even with the use of slaves, were very laborious to complete.

Therefore, after completing all the fields owned by these Heixinggen consortiums, the immigrants basically have no extra energy to open up the wasteland.

In addition, the land that has been cleared by immigrants has no property rights, and the government of the East African colonies can take it back at any time, that is, the most important thing in the East African colonies is the land, so the immigrants are allowed to develop it themselves.

However, migrants who want to exploit wasteland can hardly rely on the women of their families, who are relatively light in East Africa, so they can squeeze out time to increase their income for their families.

Poultry farming and vegetable patch care are basically done by the women and children of the family.

When it comes to backwater processing plants, there are now basically such plants in East Africa near the larger lakes and seas, which provide meat supplements for the whole of East Africa.

According to the principle of proximity, it is responsible for the supply of meat in the region, and together with other permitted meat sources in East Africa, it can basically meet the demand for meat from East African immigrants.

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