Hello thanks for your fast and efficient feedback. Well it is difficult to say if the crops depleted before they came back growing again. The only thing that I know is that when I restarted the game they had disappeared and similarly when I switched the game on yesterday evening there was something (while there was nothing when I switched off my palm or to be precise when I entered the options to pause the game the last time during the afternoon yesterday). I'm now back to a normal situation. Considering my way of playing I actually monitor most of the time my sims meaning that when I'm not playing most of the time the game is paused. It is actually paused most of the time, but I understand this is not the proper way of playing the game. I especially realised that when I saw that 50 000 tech points were required to buy level 3 of harvesting. It took me 2 weeks to get around 35 000 point only running the game between 30 min and 2 hours a day. I guess that to progress it is needed to let them accumulate points "in the background". However as I mentioned I like to be in charge and monitor their behaviour otherwise they're not always doing what you want them to do.