One thing to remember, with respect to the plantation business, is that some of the land that SIAF is granted by the Chinese government can only be used to grow crops.
That's why PF1 came online well after PF2. It was built on land that was reserved for crops, and had to be demolished and rebuilt on another area of the land which was not suitable for crops (and thus required significant earth moving, taking out part of a hill). The local government had approved their location, but the central government noticed the building from satellite views and made them restore it to a crop field (if I recall correctly).
Should Solomon let the crop-only land lie fallow? Could SIAF's land rights be jeopardized if they did not operate as the government desires? I think that working with the Chinese government is a delicate matter, and that Solomon does it pretty well.
