I'm building a city where I can only have rice on my food farms.
Since my understanding was that food farms generally should not be single crop as they cannot grow and harvest the full quantity from 69 fields, I thought I'd do a test to see what the optimum number of fields was.
My test was on a single farm growing rice on fully fertile ground and all field irrigated. The fertility said 65%. I'm not sure what the climate is but map was "Wudi moves south"
The farm house was connected to the road at the first tile on NE side. All rice was sent to warehouse and I had sufficient labour to operate fully.
I repeated each test several times
With 69 fields crop was 28 rice
So I thought I'd go down to 60 fields ie one strip less... then I hit a snag. It depends which side you leave the fields off: So...
strip off NW side crop was 31
strip off SE side crop was 25
strip off SW side crop was 23
strip off NE side crop was 27 (this is 61 fields not 60)
All these were repeatable giving same result.
But the difference between 31 and 23 is enormous. So where the fields are placed seems more important then how many fields you have (up to a point)
Has anyone investigated this or offer an insight.
I haven't got to testing silk and laquer yet but with only halfish of the available fields being used on these, which way the fields are layed out ie "portrait", "landscape" or square
might be more important than the actual number of fields.
Since my understanding was that food farms generally should not be single crop as they cannot grow and harvest the full quantity from 69 fields, I thought I'd do a test to see what the optimum number of fields was.
My test was on a single farm growing rice on fully fertile ground and all field irrigated. The fertility said 65%. I'm not sure what the climate is but map was "Wudi moves south"
The farm house was connected to the road at the first tile on NE side. All rice was sent to warehouse and I had sufficient labour to operate fully.
I repeated each test several times
With 69 fields crop was 28 rice
So I thought I'd go down to 60 fields ie one strip less... then I hit a snag. It depends which side you leave the fields off: So...
strip off NW side crop was 31
strip off SE side crop was 25
strip off SW side crop was 23
strip off NE side crop was 27 (this is 61 fields not 60)
All these were repeatable giving same result.
But the difference between 31 and 23 is enormous. So where the fields are placed seems more important then how many fields you have (up to a point)
Has anyone investigated this or offer an insight.
I haven't got to testing silk and laquer yet but with only halfish of the available fields being used on these, which way the fields are layed out ie "portrait", "landscape" or square
might be more important than the actual number of fields.