South African agriculture in the 1970s
| Autor: | Nick Vink |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | South African Journal of Economic History. 14:90-113 |
| ISSN: | 2159-0850 1011-3436 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10113439909511112 |
| Popis: | The 1970s represent the high point of the era of state support to and control of 'White' commercial farming in South Africa. Superficially, the sector seemed to be successful. Output and exports increased over the decade; the more successful (and therefore profitable) farmers consolidated their landholdings; wages and employment in the sector increased; a benign state supplied professional support services, and a successful agribusiness sector controlled by farmers through the co-operative movement supplied inputs to and processed, distributed and sold farm products. Yet history was to prove that the situation was unsustainable, and the 1980s saw the beginning of a process of state withdrawal from the sector that continues to this day. |
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