There's much more than food to use these guys for, though. It's fair to say that the farmers of your island make up one of the most important groups to watch. Click on the picture above to see concept sketches. Not only does it produce food for your people, but it provides an export as well as resources for refinement in your canneries, cigar factories and rum distilleries.
Some crops provide plenty of food while others make lots of money on the world market.
So it's good to have a variety of crops. And then there are the cattle and goats raised at the ranches, as well. Yes, you'll have plenty of these back-water agronomists running around, tilling the soiling, herding the calves, doing what they can to feed your people in one of the oldest and most respected professions around. A day in the life of a coffee plantation farmer.