One of the three available types of goods at Anophis is Food. Food is stored in the provincial grain store and in your central stock.

Central Stock

Your central stock contains your emergency reserve of food. Other Empires can never conquer the central stock.

Feeding your nation

Each priest, soldier and citizen consumes one unit of food per season.
Priests get food first. This food is taken from your central stock. If you do not have enough food to feed your priests your Regards will drop by two points for every priest not fed.

Then the army will be fed. The army will take food from the province in which it is located at that moment. If there is not enough food in the province it will be taken from your central stock. If that is depleted as well, 20 to 40% of the army will desert.
The population will be fed last. They will also try to take food from the provincial stocks. If there is a shortage in the province the food will be taken from your central stock. If there is not enough food in your central stock the population in that province will starve and the population is lowered by 10 to 25%. This will happen regardless of the amount of food that is short!

Food Production

Agriculture

In the Nile provinces and the Oases the population will grow crops to provide food for your nation. Mountain and desert provinces are not suitable for agriculture.

In the sowing season (PERET) every civilian will take one unit of food to sow out on the fields. This food will be taken from the province. If there is not enough food in the province it will be taken from your central stock

In the harvest season (SCHEMU) the fields will be harvested. In Nile provinces and in the Oases each food unit sowed will produce between 5 and 6 food. 75% of this food will be added to the provincial stock and 25% will be added to the central stock.

Livestock

In mountain and desert provinces, the Sinai and the Red sea coast provinces the population keeps livestock. In the season of flooding the nomads in these regions will harvest food from their livestock. Red sea provinces generate 3 to 5 units of food per citizen, mountain and desert provinces between 2 and 4 units. This food is added to the provincial stocks.

Food transport

You can transport food at anytime. This can be done from one province to another, form a province to your central stock of from your central stock to a province. The maximum amount that can be transported is 5000 units per season.