Re: (TFT) New file on Farming in TFT.

[Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net>]

I'm glad you posted this, as I'm working on systems stuff including farming.

Now I'm going nuts looking for my own farming stats.

In one case I had a baseline for average medieval 
yield at three acres to support one person, so
1.21 hectares per person, which is even less 
optimistic, but without my notes, that might not 
all be farm land, just more of an overall land 
use estimate, including waste, wilds, fallow, unused, losses, etc.

PvK

At 07:10 PM 8/26/2015, Jeffrey Vandine wrote:
> ...  Just glancing through the internet, for example, the absolute minimu
> m of land to feed a person for a year is about 7500 square feet -- that's a
>  plot 75x100 feet -- and that is roughly what the Japanese achieved in the
> medieval period through a combination of intensive agriculture, and extreme
>  good fortune in terms of soils and weather to support rice growing.Â
> And that works out to about 0.07 hectares per individual (or an average pop
> ulation density of 3700 per square mile).  If we assume that for TFT m
> agical support was used, this might be possible for a wider area.  How
> ever the FAO states that, on average, it takes about half a hectare to supp
> ort a single person (including a diversified modern diet of meat and vegeta
> bles, fruit and grains).  So I don't know what would be the acceptable
>  answer.
... 


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