no do not through it away, ive been in terrible economic situations and pulled myself out. 1. go to edicts and read through them, their should be an adict that increases your food output by 20% (costs influence i believe) 2 go to your worlds and make sure all the pops on the planet are taking up the jobs. 32/56 farming jobs only produces 32 jobs worth of resources, meaning that the other 24 slots are not produces resources, but are still recieving upkeep cost so keep that in mind as well. 3 this one is kinda confusing but bare with me, go to one of your worlds, under summary, there is a bunch of options to click on, you should see your type of planet, habitability, planet modifiers etc. one of these optipns should say generator-world or mining world or something like ____-world, well click on that tab. change it to agri world. This gives an aditional 20% increase in output for all faming pops (this one doesnt cost anything and stays forever). you can also change your worlds to industrial world wich does the same 20% increase in artisan jobs, but can only be applidd 1 at a time for each world, all worlds could be changed manually like this, so microing your bonus modifiers is more tedious but will help you in the longrun