Xsampa

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Strawberry Socialism! Strengthing the Xsampan Strawberry Industry!

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October 13th, 5736
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Within Xsampan agriculture, there remains a peculiar giant, an anomaly from the One Party Era. Within agriculture, you have sub industries that make sense. Yaks, Rye, Beef, so on and so forth. What you'd traditionally expect from an agricultural industry. However, thanks to rather strong investments in the past from a certain Premier during the One Party Era, one major brand of Xsampan Agriculture is of course, strawberries. However, the industry, like most rural industries, has fallen behind. The Lukhangwa Administration is looking to modernize and expand the strawberry industry, both due to its strong consistency of hiring workers for agricultural work in the South (most especially in the Mtshogram Canton), and due to the industry having a soft PR boost for Xsampan culture.

As such the first thing is actually expanding production. Whether this be improving irrigation, improving soil quality, or expanding greenhouses, production is vital for the industry. The state will cover these investments whilst of course, Worker Councils will flex their newly found authority and focus on planting schedules, harvesting methods, labour organization, and equipment purchases. The goal isn't to make higher quotas, as that won't get the industry anywhere. The goal is to ensure higher yields per hectare. To ensure this, what's the constant word that's been thrown around this decade? Logistics! Just as it helps the Xsampan Democratic Army, it helps railways and it helps economies. Spoiled fruit is not only a health hazard but wasted production. Refrigerated warehouses, refrigerated railcars, and refrigerated trucks will be vital to ensuring strawberries make it to shelves before any potential spoilage. 

Now the real focus is on what else you can make with strawberries. On its own, you have just strawberries. Delicious and edible. But a good industry is one that serves many uses. This is where refined processing will come into play. Jam, preserves, fruit juice, frozen strawberries, dried strawberries, yogurt flavouring, ice cream flavouring, bakery fillings, fruit concentrates and confectionary ingredients are just a few of the uses for strawberries and they instantly raise the value of the industry tenfold. Processing will be handled by state owned refineries while distribution will of course, fall to Social Enterprises to accommodate the needs of Supply and Demand. This also has the added benefit of giving Social Enterprises the liberty to experiment, such as offering scented candles, soaps, cosmetics, perfumes, and even some skincare. 

This ensures that rural economies thrive, jobs remain stable, industries grow and perhaps most importantly, Xsampa gets another thing to export to the wider global market behind just pure strawberries. And that revenue benefits the state, which benefits communities just as much as local jobs do.
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Today's Quote of The Day; "Look, strawberries. They're awesome. Why don't we uh.. grow some? Who cares if it's expensive. I think we should do it. Who's gonna tell me no?"
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Glory to the Xsampan Revolution! Glory to the Xsampan Proletariat!

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