Maybe in the winter they all come to a central town to work. Central town probably looks more like Six than Eleven (where they produce horticultural crops that require a lot more manual labor). No really: equipment maintenance, grain mills, ethanol plants, lots of trains bringing grain from all the far flung outposts.
Oh, yes, this totally makes sense to me. There's the issue of who else would do all this refining and packaging, if not in Nine (like those other logistics issues we were laughing over this evening), plus the fact that farming is really intense for a few months/half of the year, but the other parts are probably full of a lot of down time.
I could see it go a couple of ways, but I tend to think you're right in that if they have the tech, the Capitol will want to use the modern mechanized systems for farming. In some places it does seem like the Capitol willfully lets some of the population struggle along with less technology than they could have to do their job (most especially Twelve), and in some places there probably aren't a lot of great alternatives (eg, I think some fruit and vegetable farming in the US is still highly labor intensive because there haven't been many recent innovations in harvesting, which is harder to do given the delicate nature of many of these crops, so I see Eleven as having a very large population). But letting any land go fallow, or paying out a lot of extra tessare for a massive number of grain farmers does seem pointless.
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Date: 2015-02-18 10:49 pm (UTC)Oh, yes, this totally makes sense to me. There's the issue of who else would do all this refining and packaging, if not in Nine (like those other logistics issues we were laughing over this evening), plus the fact that farming is really intense for a few months/half of the year, but the other parts are probably full of a lot of down time.
I could see it go a couple of ways, but I tend to think you're right in that if they have the tech, the Capitol will want to use the modern mechanized systems for farming. In some places it does seem like the Capitol willfully lets some of the population struggle along with less technology than they could have to do their job (most especially Twelve), and in some places there probably aren't a lot of great alternatives (eg, I think some fruit and vegetable farming in the US is still highly labor intensive because there haven't been many recent innovations in harvesting, which is harder to do given the delicate nature of many of these crops, so I see Eleven as having a very large population). But letting any land go fallow, or paying out a lot of extra tessare for a massive number of grain farmers does seem pointless.