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Originally Posted by Graveyard Duck
The peasants in this world are already aware of the need for crop rotation, which they perform by leaving the parts of the field idle for a time. The Demon King's improved plan involves constant use of the fields and is supposed to work in a four year cycle. I expect that it'll take more than four years for the peasants to see themselves that the Demon King's method of field rotation does preserve the soil quality and thus come to rely on that method.
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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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And then the Demon King is only teaching the method to one rather backward village on the frontier. It will take even longer for people in other regions to notice that this village has a better method of crop rotation and to copy the method, which further delays how long the improved results can be used to intensify war efforts. (This paragraph assumes she's not going to go around teaching all the frontier villages her new method of rotation but rather leaving the spreading to the current village)
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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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