It is important for the East African government to keep the agricultural situation up to date every year, because agriculture is one of the main sources of government revenue in East Africa, and the East African agriculture is not yet finalized and will increase every year, so it is necessary to update the data in a timely manner.

"Now that the war is over, the focus of East Africa's development must return to the economic aspect, and agriculture is an important guarantee for industrial and economic development, so maintaining the stable and orderly development of East African agriculture after resolving the security crisis is an important task for all agricultural sectors," Ernst said. ”

There is no doubt that agriculture is one of the ballast stones of East Africa's economic development, and the next development of industry in East Africa is bound to obtain more funds and raw materials from agriculture.

The best way to do this is to continue to increase agricultural production and increase the export of agricultural products, and as for causing international prices of food and agricultural raw materials to fall, that is not a priority for East Africa.

Just like the Far Eastern Empire, which went all out to develop cheap labor factories at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, was actually completely forced to make a choice, you didn't even do the most basic labor-intensive industries, and some people abroad did it, and their labor costs were cheaper.

Once the opportunity is missed, the industrial transfer of Europe and the United States will be transferred to India, Africa and other regions, and the United States can also transfer to South America and the Middle East.

In the nineteenth century, much different from the twenty-first century, agriculture remained the main source of income for most countries and the only source of primitive capital accumulation in the non-colonial countries.

Therefore, the economic development of East Africa is bound to draw blood from agriculture, and the hard work in agriculture in East Africa in the first 20 years is actually to cultivate its own domestic hematopoietic capacity.

Of course, there are other sources of income in East Africa, where mineral resources are as important as agriculture, especially the precious metal resources of East Africa, namely gold mining.

However, this is mainly as a supplement to the economic development of East Africa, and if it has been relying on the sale of mines as the main source of income, then the outcome of East Africa is nothing more than those resource-based countries in the previous life.

Ernst's primary goal was to ensure that the East African people were "moving", to maintain their productive efficiency, to deprive them of surplus production value, and thus to ensure the orderly development of the social climate of the whole country.

Therefore, East Africans lack tens of thousands of "wealth myths" like the United States, but they can concentrate more national forces to lead industrial development, and as for the difference between national wealth and individual wealth, in Ernst's view, East Africans have no bargaining power.

Because East Africa is a monarchy, the country's wealth does not mean that Ernst is rich, and the money is mainly led by the East African government, and all of it is invested in the country's economic operation.

Ernst himself did not make money for the Hexingen royal family from state funds, which is the biggest example, of course, backed by the Hexingen consortium, the Heixingen royal family is still rich and rivaled, but the scale of the Heixingen consortium is completely incomparable with the collection of state-owned enterprises under the East African government.

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Great lakes region.

While Ernst was calculating his family's fortunes, Konstantin visited the Great Lakes region for the third time, and since Konstantin had been relieved of his duties, his favorite thing was to wander around East Africa and inspect and lecture the local government.

"The Great Lakes are the sea on our East African plateau, and the construction of water conservancy in the Great Lakes Basin is a century-old plan for the entire Great Lakes Basin." Konstantin said, looking at a field full of life.

The windmill squeaks in the breeze, directing the water of the lake to the shore, then from the iron pipe to the trough, into the aqueduct, and watering the land on the shore.

Nowadays, the agricultural facilities in the Great Lakes region are more perfect, the fields are in good order, the rivers are criss-crossed, the houses are like houses, and the farmers and livestock are roaming in the fields, which is a magnificent scene of "the land of fish and rice".

Graeme, an official of the Western Great Lakes province, assured Konstantin: "The construction of water conservancy projects has always been a key development direction for us in the province of Western Great Lakes, and in the last decade the province has undergone tremendous changes, and most of these changes have been guaranteed by the construction of water conservancy projects. ”

In fact, as a large agricultural province, the government of the Western Great Lakes Province can only focus more on agriculture, because East Africa's industry is mainly concentrated in the coastal and central regions, while the inland province of Western Great Lakes does not even have the opportunity.

Of course, the Western Great Lakes Province is not entirely gifted with resources, and has the ability to develop industry, but it pales in comparison with the south-central provinces.

However, the gold mining in the Western Great Lakes Province is indeed the largest in East Africa, and the Great Lakes region is surrounded by important gold mining areas in East Africa, so the two provinces of the Great Lakes region are currently the main gold producing areas in East Africa.

However, gold production is managed vertically by a major East African government directly delegated to do so, and the province of the Great Lakes West has little to gain from it.

"Throughout the 80s, our province refined the management of 170,000 square kilometers of river basins, opened up more than 4,350 acres of cultivated land, built 2,923 kilometers of river embankments, dredged and repaired 3,451 kilometers of river channels, built 5,487 sluices, excavated 30,000 kilometers of artificial canals, 586 large, medium and small reservoirs, and increased grain output three times compared with the seventies." Graham proudly recounts the achievements of the Western Great Lakes Province.

Konstantin was also very interested in this, he said: "I am afraid that there are not many countries in the world that can achieve such construction achievements in ten years, and you have done a good job." ”

In fact, in the 19th century, any of the famous powers in the past developed well, but their development path was different from that of East Africa, which everywhere reflected the style of big government, and everything was driven and led by the government, similar to Germany.

The negative example is the United States, which actually develops more than any other country in the world every year, but the economic data of the United States is scattered, and the private economy and local forces play a leading role.

For example, in terms of water conservancy construction, East Africa focuses on large-scale planning and coordinated regional development, while each state in the United States develops independently, and occasionally the central government coordinates cross-regional project construction, so as long as the data of the United States is aggregated, it is not inferior to any country.

The weakness of the U.S. central government in the national economy means that its economic data is not easy to reflect intuitively, but the East African government is well aware of the development of East Africa.

Graeme continued: "The entire Western Great Lakes region now has more than 205 million acres of arable land, ranking second in the country, second only to the North Lakes Province. ”

By 1890, more than 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land had been opened up in East Africa, and the surrounding provinces of the Great Lakes region alone had reached 900 million mu, accounting for half of East Africa's cultivated area, and the output of grain crops exceeded two-thirds of the country's scale.

Of course, the provinces around the Great Lakes region are relatively broad, such as the southern Plateau Province, which is almost the main body of Tanzania in later generations, with a considerable area, and the northern Beidahu Province, which is also the arable land area of Uganda in the previous life, is also very considerable.

Moreover, the region is dominated by food crops, so the area around the Great Lakes region is a veritable "breadbasket of East Africa", with the largest wheat and rice production in the country.

The second is the coastal plain, which is not small, but in recent years, agriculture has mainly shifted to the cultivation of cash crops, providing raw materials for production in eastern cities or directly participating in foreign trade.

Other regions such as the central, southern, northwestern (Somalia) and northern regions are too small to be compared with the traditional three major grain production bases in East Africa.

(End of chapter)