Rice Paddies (TWS2)

Rice Paddies (TWS2)
Chain	Farming Type
Requires	-
Enables	Buildings: Improved Irrigation
Spawned Defence Forces	-
Basic Building Statistics	Cost: 150 +600 to wealth from farms in this province Provides food: 1
Clan Effects	-
See main article; FotS Buildings

Description

Order and chaos are only a chopstick's length apart.

Paddies are the artificially flooded fields where rice is grown. Rice is the staple foodstuff of all Japanese people, from the lowly peasant growing the crop to the mightiest daimyo enjoying his rice from an exquisitely elegant bowl. Taxes are measured in koku, or sacks of rice. Each province's basic wealth and therefore potential tax yield is measured by its rice output.

Working in rice paddies has always been long, exhausting work. The preparation of small dikes and channels to manage the water supply is a huge task for any farmer. Once the fields are properly laid out and flooded, the individual rice plants have to be hand-planted one at a time, a backbreaking task for anyone. The work was often communal, as most villages were self-governing and self-sustaining. A successful crop was not guaranteed, and a poor harvest would be doubly devastating as the peasants starved and their taxes to the local daimyo, often in taken rice, went unpaid. The violent repercussions of such disrespect and failure were rightly feared. Where the ruling clan was too weak or ineffective to impose taxes things were often no easier, as bandits would quite happily impose their own "taxes" on villagers. From the villagers's perspective, there was little to choose between taxmen and bandits. In this, at least, the Japanese peasants were identical to others all across the world.

Other Information

In the Campaign, every province has a Soil Quality which determines the amount of wealth that is generated by farming. As such, any player that wants to strengthen their economy must take control of Provinces with rich soil and invest in upgrading their farms as soon as possible. Provinces with poor soil should only be upgraded if you have plenty of extra gold and need a surplus of food to sustain buildings that consume food.

Farm Yields without Equal Fields

	Rice Paddies	Improved Irrigation	Terrace Farming	Land Consolidation
Very Fertile	1800	2250	2550	2850
Fertile	1200	1500	1700	1900
Average	900	1125	1275	1425
Meager	780	974	1105
Barren	600	750	850	950

Farm Yields with Equal Fields

	Rice Paddies	Improved Irrigation	Terrace Farming	Land Consolidation
Very Fertile	1836	2295	2601	2907
Fertile	1224	1530	1734	1938
Average	918	1147	1300	1453
Meager	795	994	1127	1259
Barren	612	765	867	969

Chosokabe Farm Yields without Equal Fields

	Rice Paddies	Improved Irrigation	Terrace Farming	Land Consolidation
Very Fertile	1980	2475	2805
Fertile	1320	1650	1870
Average	990	1237	1402
Meager	857	1072	1215
Barren	660	825	935

Chosokabe Farm Yields with Equal Fields

	Rice Paddies	Improved Irrigation	Terrace Farming	Land Consolidation
Very Fertile	2016	2520	2856	3192
Fertile	1344	1680	1904	2128
Average	1008	1260	1428	1596
Meager	873	1092	1237	1383
Barren	672	840	952	1064