# Call to change African farms **URL:** \ **Category:** III - Discussion\ **Created:** [March 14, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/call-to-change-african-farms/250546 "2024-03-14T22:16:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
**Author:** ![coffeeco01](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/coffeeco01/32/29258_2.png) [@coffeeco01](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/coffeeco01)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/call-to-change-african-farms/250546/24 "2024-03-17T08:39:06Z")
they have the same overall rate once you account for the granary. villagers on mills only gather at like 70% of the rate of the vil UI since they have alot of walking time built in fields have a lot less walking time compared to mills since there are less vils on them and the space they walk are also alot less. There is also the hidden fact that the market vil HP and attack upgrade also grants vils speed so your gather rate are slightly increased though its very minor Hausa can also get cheeky and add in a griot which gives like another 5% speed boost > [@Let's talk about the Hausa](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/lets-talk-about-the-hausa/231308/58): > > So because I have no life I tried to test the actual impact of the hausa gather rate Test 1: 24 hausa vils with grannary vs 24 british vils for about 10 mins its a about equivalent, there were minor variations due to the fact that I couldnt set the african civ AI to just collect the res ( they start doing stupid stuff) At first I saw that the euro vils were gathering more but i discovered this was because I didn’t pack them fully (24 vils on 4 mills). When it was 24 vils … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/call-to-change-african-farms/250546)._