Title:
"Clean River Incentive"
Game Text:
"X% tax break for farmers in my region who reduce by Y% the outflow of pesticides and fertilizers from their farms into the rivers."
Draft Affects: When drafting this policy, player selects a percentage X
[1% through 100%] and Y% [1% through 100%].
Votes Required: Automatic
Model Effects: The sim estimates the number and location of farms
within the region and the amount spent by those farms on improved irrigation.
The model will need a current amount of pesticides and fertilizers in use
per square km, the current percentage that goes into rivers, and, the four
control points of each ease-in-out cubic Bezier function giving pesticide
and fertilizer use verses yield for each of the 12 farm products and
pesticide and fertilizer use verses cost of alternative methods including
more expensive seeds, natural pest controls, and landscape for reduced run-off.
The Y% tax break is applied to the regions tax revenue on the next turn.