Smallholder grants you legal permission to do the following actions within the Agriculture Sector (Ag-Sec) department:

1. Rent Smallholder Plots - technologically improved to quickly grow plants on-ship without the need to transport down to a planetoid’s surface
2. Purchase basic seeds from the ship’s Vendings - More advanced seeds can be found on Away Missions or developed using a proliferator.
3. Plant seeds for later harvest - Most plants take around an hour to grow, though some may take longer. It takes 10 minutes to plant a seed.
4. Harvest plants - You may harvest plants in Ag-Sec that you have planted. This takes one minute.

Smallholder Plots come in 3 durations: Short-Term, Medium-Term, and Long-Term rentals. Short-Term rentals last for the entirety of the current Assembly (Event). Meaning if you rent it right after going through customs, your rental will expire at the end of the Assembly. Similarly, if you rent it 3/4 of the way through the Assembly, it will still expire at the end of the Assembly. Medium-Term rentals last 2 Assemblies. Long-Term rentals last 4. You do not need to rent all of your plots at once. You could rent one first thing in the morning, and then rent more in the afternoon.

The cost to rent Planter Boxes is determined based on the size of the plots rented, and the number of that size plot rented simultaneously. It is recommended that if you need a lot of plots running simultaneously, working as a group will keep costs low. Please see the following chart:

Renting Smallholder plots can be performed in Ag-Sec.