When to convert farmers/labourers

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I've just started playing ricky and I'm having alot of fun. However I'm struggling with the economic/industrial aspect of the game. In my current game as Brazil I'm in 1880 and my industrial score is barely 80.

One of the things that everyone seems to say is to change your economy from a resource economy to a goods economy i.e steel, glass etc. But the thing is I don't know when I should take farmers or labourers off RGOs. I'll usually have legions of farmers and labourers on RGO's 'cause I'm not sure if I should convert them to clerks/craftsmen or not, because I don't want to lose the productivity of the RGO. Can anyone give me some advice with this?

 

[unmerged(48056)]

I usually fall back per RGOS.
Wheat/Fruits are the first to go empty or on life support (i.e. 500 people working on them).

Though it's recommended that you start industrializing when you receive immigrants. Because you're better off just concentrating your industry (and capitalist bonus) in a single province than building mini factories throughout Latin America.

 

[Lord Raglan]

i use the price and availability to decide ie fish and grain are always availiable for very little cost so i convet those POPs first

 

[Andrelvis]

When playing Brazil, I usually promote the clergymen in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and São Paolo to capitalists and convert the labourers/farmers in the non-coffee provinces of those states to craftsmen/clerks. If industry starts to become very profitable, I convert even the coffee ones.