Subsistence Farming (FOTS)
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| Subsistence Farming (FOTS) | |
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| File:Subsistence Farming FOTS.png | |
| Chain | Farming Type |
| Requires | - |
| Enables | Buildings: |
| Spawned Defence Forces | - |
| Basic Building Statistics | |
| Clan Effects | - |
| See main article; FotS Buildings | |
Description
A bowl of rice offers nothing for the future.
Subsistence farms provide a basic agricultural income, and can help industry grow by providing food to the workers.
Relatively small-scale farming will feed the people adequately in most years, but it allows little excess to support a workforce away from the farm. Even in medieval-pattern societies, a reliable food surplus is necessary to support skilled craftsmen, and even warriors. If the surplus fails, then starvation and economic disaster soon follow, as craftsmen move to where they can find food. Peasants, being tied to the land rather than having marketable skills, do not have such an option.
