The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 96: Changes in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry (Please subscribe!)

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Population growth is crucial for Australia; to effectively alleviate the awkward situation of insufficient population, it is necessary to maintain at least one hundred thousand immigrants and 120,000 new residents every year.

Due to various large-scale constructions, Australia’s per capita income has reached more than ten pounds. Correspondingly, tax revenue has also increased.

In 1901, Australia’s total fiscal revenue was approximately 43 million pounds, while total fiscal expenditure was 13 million pounds.

Although the fiscal balance was extremely unbalanced, this was due to the initiation of numerous constructions. Without the spending on these constructions, Australia’s finances could yield a surplus of nearly two million pounds each year.

Meanwhile, Australia’s Ministry of Finance possesses a large sum of funds. Despite a huge expenditure of over 10 million pounds each year, the Ministry’s available funds still remain above 150 million pounds.

According to the Ministry of Finance’s statistics, Australia added several thousand individual business owners last year.

Most of them started their own small factories and shops and became shopkeepers and bosses.

Although their funds were small, with the highest being less than 1000 pounds and the smallest being only tens or hundreds of pounds.

However, compared to Australia’s previous situation, this was already considerable progress.

Among these people, it is not impossible for one to become Australia’s richest man and give a driving force to the development of Australian enterprises.

In addition to these, the construction of nursing homes, orphanages, hospitals, and schools is also progressing steadily.

Arthur attaches great importance to people’s livelihoods. This has also led to a significant investment in people’s livelihoods by the Australian Government.

Of course, huge investments also brought considerable returns. The total number of orphanages and nursing homes has exceeded fifty, and the number of elderly people and orphans adopted has broken through five thousand and three thousand, respectively.

This has accommodated most of the widows and orphans, achieving significant success in the work of caring for the elderly and orphans.

In Australia, when mentioning nursing homes and orphanages, people will look fervently and admiringly in the direction of the Manor House, for that is where the monarch they trust resides.

Schools, obviously, are one of the top priority projects for the government.

So far, Australia has nearly two hundred primary schools and twenty middle schools, with tens of thousands of new students entering schools each year.

The nurturing effect of the National University is also gratifying. Although the number of newly enrolled college students in 1901 was not much, only slightly over 600, the total number of college students reached more than 1400 in the two years combined.

As the Australian National University generally adopts a half-theoretical and half-practical teaching method, these university students will have a smooth transition to work after graduation.

With the Victoria Award attracting high-end talent to Australia, and the improvement of education alleviating the deficiency of low and middle-end talent.

In this way, Australia’s talent cultivation system will gradually take shape, providing a strong upward development potential for Australia’s scientific research and other industries.

Medical care departments are not making significant moves, still only maintaining a large-scale hospital in each state.

However, they hold a supportive attitude towards the establishment of small clinics. They will even provide financial support to small clinics that have development potential.

According to the Ministry of Health’s statistics, there are currently over thirty private clinics in Australia, with more than ten in New South Wales State.

These private clinics significantly improve Australia’s medical environment, and their impact is even greater than building new hospitals, especially in the face of medical personnel shortages.

Given Australia’s talent pool, even if a large-scale hospital were built in each state, it would face a severe talent shortage.

Apart from the New South Wales State Hospital in the capital, where all departments have been gradually established and opened, other hospitals still face talent issues in certain departments.

Perhaps these situations can only be solved by the Victoria Award, which would attract world-renowned medical experts and then cultivate middle and low- end medical professionals, thus providing hope to completely solve the medical talent shortage.

The influx of a large number of Indigenous peoples has brought about significant changes in another part of Australia, namely the Ministry of Agriculture.

Originally, due to a severe shortage of manpower, the development of Australia’s land was very slow, it could even be described as “snail-paced”.

The main purpose of large-scale immigration to Australia was not farming but mining gold and other valuable minerals.

This was the reason for their low incomes; they came to pan for gold, but very few of them made a fortune from it.

Many people immigrated to Australia due to the gold rush, yet often ended up becoming one of the poor common people of Australia.

Now with the addition of Indigenous peoples, the development of Australia’s land, especially the development of cultivated land, has made significant progress, with not only an increase in per capita land but also a significant increase in cultivated land area per capita.

This has a significant impact on Australia’s grain production. According to the Ministry of Agriculture’s estimates, by 1902, Australia will be able to produce enough grain for 8 million people, which means that with the current population, Australia’s annual grain production can not only feed all its people but also export a large amount.

The animal husbandry industry is, of course, no exception for Australia. Ranches are becoming more numerous and breeding households are increasing in the fields of cattle and sheep.

This has led to a very low price for meat in Australia, which is why both the army and university students have sufficient supplies of beef and mutton in their food.

At least in terms of logistics supply and especially food logistics supply, Australia maintains an equal level of food supply with European Nations.

Each soldier can eat two meals with meat every day, a treatment that most soldiers in other countries do not have.

The food supply for those treasured university students goes without saying; in addition to common beef and mutton, schools also hire cooks from other countries to prepare other sumptuous dishes to satisfy the students’ appetites while studying.

Although this would cause the Australian National University to spend several thousand or even tens of thousands of pounds on logistics every year, in front of these university students, a little financial expenditure is definitely worth it.

In addition to changes in agriculture and animal husbandry, Australia’s road construction has also welcomed great changes.

Particularly, roads between cities have entered a renewal and expansion plan after the large-scale expansion of cement plants in the industrial area.

This is not only in preparation for the future car sales but also to effectively enhance the cultural exchange and economic exchange between various states and cities in Australia.