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Originally Posted by kagato3
No they should be seeing resualts within the first year by reduceing the need for extra grazeing land allowing more farming land as fallow feilds are unuseable for grazeing and by haveing a foder crop more livestock could be kept through winter. with out this nearly all livestock would need to be slaughtered before winter and meat spoils much quicker then feed. So in one years time you would have both more useable farmland and a grater sulpy of meat durring the winter and early spring.
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There are two separate concerns for the farmland:
1. Annual productivity.
2. Sustainability.
Productivity is, as you and Anh_Minh observed, obvious within the year, because all of the land is being used to produce food year round. However, sustainability is not as obvious. It's only when crop is planted into the divisions that were used for clover and turnips that the farmers can observe that the clover an turnip grazing fields help sustain soil nutrients. Since the rotation is on a four year cycle, with each division rotated annually, it would take more than a year for the farmers to observe sustainability.
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Well barring the question of if the Demon Lord has other plans to spread this knowlage. Is it right to assume that this is a backwards village? All we know is that this village is fairly close to the gate. There also seems to be a fairly high number of nobles/upper class near by since she was able to get 3 students. There also seem to be a fairly large number of buildings nor does it seem to be a surfdom since Demon King fouced on convincing the village elder instead of a local lord. the sisters were also passing trough it to get to the capital so it is most likely a local trade hub.
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The Demon King and the Hero refer to the village as non-flourishing, newly settled, and small toward the start of the episode. It is possible for for such a village to still be important and non-backwater, but the impression I got is that the village is neither important nor influential--the Demon King said people in flourishing places would not listen to them. Thus, the village would not be suited for spreading knowledge quickly.
The three students were a nobleman's son, a soldier's son, and a merchant's son, each in the singular. They are not much proof of the village's importance--the opposite, I'd say, since a nobleman is not likely to send his son to an unknown traveling scholar if he were near some kind of important trade center; he would instead have used someone more established.