Agriculture in Great Kirav



Agriculture in Great Kirav is a major economic activity underpinning local and regional economies across most of the island continent's land area.

As a result of its natural history, the agricultural endowment of the island continent includes both Old World and New World species, and has been supplemented by crops and animals introduced from other continents, such as wheat and cattle.

Even with modern improvements in agronomy, Mainland Kiravian agriculture is insufficiently productive to satisfy enormous domestic demand, and most of the island continent’s food supply is imported, mainly from Levantia, Sarpedon, and South Crona.

Agriculture in Æonara and in other parts of the Kiravian Federacy and Collectivity, such as Sydona, are covered separately.

Potato
The (Coscivian: ēln) is the most important food crop in Great Kirav, and has been since the dawn of agriculture. Potato began to be domesticated as early as 25,000 years ago in the central latitudes of the Western Highlands. The potato plant's remarkable ability to thrive in cool climates and subprime soil conditions made it indispensible to early Kiravian farmers and an enduring staple of the Kiravian diet. Potato is grown throughout Great Kirav, but more so in the north and west. It is the dominant crop in the more marginal lands that make up much of the continent.

Cereals
The principal grain crops grown in Great Kirav are the Three Reliables: Rye and wildrye,, and ), along with barley, wheat, and triticale.

Hard red winter wheat is grown in drier mesotemperate areas of the interior. Durum wheat and other varieties grown mainly in the South.

Hops
Hops are mainly grown in areas with an oceanic climate. Major hop-growing regions include the West Coast, South, and parts of the Eastern Highlands and Central Uplands. Kiravian hops supply the Kiravian brewing industry and are also exported.

Pre-mechanisation hop cultivation relied on a large seasonal labour force that migrated annually between hop-producing areas and areas of off-season employment. These workers came to regard themselves as distinct social groups known as the hop clans.

Other Crops
Other important agricultural products include:
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Stock
Kiravians rear animals for meat, milk, hide, horn, and other valuable products, such as insulin.

Many lowland pastoral regions of Great Kirav, such as Venèra and Axólega, are characterised by a landscape in which parcels of land are separated by dense (and often very old)  and wooded berms to facilitate herd management and protect crop fields from grazing livestock. In other regions, such as Vôtaska and Elegia, is the norm. Open rangeland grazing is most common in Korlēdan, Sixua, and the South.

Also sheep.

Dogs
A pygmy dog breed known in Ænglish as the is raised for meat, mainly in the interior and parts of the Baylands. Dogmeat was historically regarded as poor man's fare, but has recently undergone something of a lobster effect and become fashionable among the élite. Consumption of dogmeat was on the decline for much of the modern era, but rapidly expanded during the latter half of the Kirosocialist period due to food scarcity caused by the command economy. As dogs were outside the scope of government planning and not regulated as livestock, they could be raised for sale on the without fear of criminal penalty. Contemporary production is mainly for the domestic market, due to low foreign demand and legal prohibitions in many countries.