After lunch, the Cabinet meeting entered a rather dull phase—the departments began to discuss the challenges they faced.
The biggest problem for the Ministry of Agriculture was the Crown Prince's demand to control the scale of sugar beet cultivation.
Previously, farmers growing sugar beet all made money due to the high price of sugar. Now, if you tell others they're not allowed to plant it, of course they'll have objections.
Some people have even secretly planted sugar beets in their wheat fields.
Venio has already suggested imposing a tax on sugar beet seeds.
Besides that, vast tracts of land in North Africa lack the manpower to be cultivated. You know, both Tunisia and Algiers are stretches of fertile plains—as long as you just turn over the soil and throw out some seeds, you can get a decent harvest.
But only the very poor French people are willing to settle in North Africa.
