The first East African Food Festival was rather informal, and the menu was very ordinary and there was little innovation, but the East African government's purpose was more to promote food safety awareness through this food festival.

This can be seen from the ingredients provided by the East African government, most of which are common ingredients in East Africa.

At the same time, there are so-called "nutrition" experts to popularize science to the people of East Africa, just like the Western capitalists "hype" desserts, and in the mouths of East African "experts", it becomes that sugar intake must be moderate, and excessive sugar intake may lead to ...... A whole bunch of diseases.

In contrast to the blind pursuit of sugar by the media and interest groups around the world in the 19th century, it is not an exaggeration to say that the current production of sugar crops in East Africa is not exaggerated compared with that of countries of the same latitude, but it is foreseeable that sugar production in East Africa will also reach a rather exaggerated level in the future.

Ernst just didn't want East Africa to become a country with a human sugar overload like the United States, and set a tone for them in advance.

In any case, the expansion of cultivation will continue, because there is a strong demand for sugar all over the world, and large-scale cultivation is profitable, and industrial production will also consume a large part of it, such as the military industry.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't make it up, Ernst came up with a national dietary guide for East Africans to guide their eating habits.

However, the East African Food Festival is the first after all, and the content and procedure are very simple, but it has also attracted widespread attention.

The people of East Africa can't do it if they don't pay attention, after all, the most important way they understand East African news is through newspapers, either government announcements or hearsay.

In fact, Ernst was very unconcerned about the festival, but Konstantin and Prince Karl were very interested.

Ernst is now listening to a report from the government on the achievements and effects of water conservancy in East Africa over the past decade or so.

"From 1865 to last year, in 15 years, we have repaired more than 23,000 kilometers of rivers in East Africa, of which more than 80 percent are local projects, about 20 percent are high-standard projects, and more than 60 percent are completed within five years, greatly improving the conditions for domestic river navigation, irrigation, and flood control."

"More than 5,780 kilometers of river embankments have been built and reinforced, 300 million cubic meters of earthwork have been constructed, 763 kilometers of canals have been excavated, 180,000 small water conservancy projects have been built, and 27 large-scale water conservancy projects with construction revenues of more than 10,000 mu have been built."

"The area of arable land effectively and fully irrigated in the country has increased to 35 million hectares, mainly concentrated in the Great Lakes region, coastal plain production areas, inland highland production areas, and parts of Matabele province."

If these two qualifiers are removed, the size of the cultivated land in East Africa will be doubled, but many of the remaining arable land, many of which may be dependent on the weather because of imperfect water conservancy facilities.

The large-scale development of East Africa still has a long way to go for the African continent, which has been absent for thousands of years, and it took hundreds of years for the United States, which is also a big agricultural country, to have today's agricultural achievements, while it is impossible for East Africa to complete the road that other countries have walked in hundreds or even thousands of years in more than ten years.

"Last year, the grain yield per mu in irrigation areas across the country increased by about 31 catties, that is, about 247 catties, compared with 10 years ago, and the construction of water conservancy facilities played an important role in it."

The increase in grain production is certainly related to the construction of water conservancy projects in East Africa, but it is not the only factor, including the promotion of scientific planting techniques, the improvement of the performance of agricultural tools, and the results of East Africa's efforts to overcome various setbacks.

After all, East Africa is a completely alien land to East Africans, and its climate, soil and precipitation are completely different from those of Eurasia.

The simplest example is the timing, size, and frequency of the rainy season in East Africa, which need to be explored by the East African government, agricultural experts, meteorologists, farmers and other parties.

In the early days of East Africa, it often occurred that the rainy season was misjudged when the rainy season came, or the scale of the rainy season led to a reduction in production and a failure of the harvest, and it took more than ten years for East Africans to understand the patterns and changes more clearly.

Water conservancy construction is a stabilizer and catalyst for agricultural development in East Africa, which reduces the impact of the natural environment on agriculture and makes an important contribution to improving the stable production and income of East Africa.

"In addition to grain crops, cash crop planting areas have also benefited a lot, last year the new cash crop area of 1.3 million hectares, the national cash crop planting area reached more than 23 million hectares, and with the construction of water conservancy facilities, more places in the future can also become fertile land, especially in the north and inland plateau production areas."

"And with the improvement of water conservancy facilities, some land that can only be planted for one or two seasons in previous years can be planted for one more season, so the grain planting area in East Africa has not increased much in recent years, and it can keep up with the population growth rate."

"As of 1880, we still have more space to adjust and build the water conservancy foundation of East Africa, especially in the past three years, the field of water conservancy construction in East Africa has been effectively developed, more than the previous ten years combined, and with the passage of time, it is optimistic that we will be able to complete the task of the basic farmland and water conservancy construction projects in East Africa within ten years."

Well, Ernst is quite satisfied with this speed, and it is not easy for a young country like East Africa to achieve this effect.

As for the 10 years mentioned by the subordinates, it is only a rough foundation, and with the passage of time and scientific and technological progress, all the goals pursued in East Africa will certainly change dramatically.

Ernst: "At present, the national water conservancy construction project is just on the right track, but with the accumulation of more than ten years of accumulation, the conditions in East Africa are much better than before, which is why we can further transform the natural environment of East Africa." ”

After all, a world-class project like the construction of a water conservancy project in East Africa requires extremely large manpower, material and financial resources, and at the same time requires sufficient preparation time.

In terms of manpower, one is that East Africa has achieved the problem of "making up for the people" of blacks, which has made up for the major shortage of slave labor, and the other is the vigorous growth of the immigrant population in East Africa.

After the immigrant population of East Africa exceeds 10 million, East Africa can truly concentrate on major things, such as ensuring agricultural cultivation while realizing the simultaneous development of East Africa in many fields.

Agricultural development has provided a guarantee for East Africa to carry out large-scale national projects, otherwise East Africa would not have thought to solve the problem of labor rations alone, and at the same time, agricultural development has solved a large part of East Africa's funding gap.

At the same time, the projects in East Africa have fed back the development and value of East African agriculture, which have been completed in the past decade or so.

As the report said, the construction of water conservancy projects in East Africa in the past three years has exceeded the amount of projects accumulated in the previous ten years.

And now it is growing at a considerable rate every year, quickly filling the gap in this field in East Africa, making the penetration rate of water conservancy facilities in East Africa reach the normal national standard, and even surpass many countries in South America.

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