After deducting this factor, the deficit in our food supply is actually continuously decreasing.
Theoretically, after the completion of the immigration plan, we could satisfy more than 80% of our own food needs.
It is only the development of animal husbandry, which has taken up a lot of agricultural land and consumed a large amount of food, that makes the food crisis appear severe.
The trouble of financial deficit is not even a problem. A downturn in the steel industry cannot persist for a long time, as it's a monopoly industry. Once the inventory is mostly consumed, the market will rebound.
Not to mention we have the canal project to look forward to. Once it is completed next year, the transportation in the domain will improve significantly.
Even if we don't consider maritime trade in the short term, we can bring back some fish to compensate for the lack of meat in the domain's diet, right?