- Title
- The commercial agricultural economy of the East Cape: Die kommersiële landbou-ekonomie van die Oos-Kaap
- Creator
- Antrobus, Geoffrey G
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143079
- Identifier
- vital:38199
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/03031853.1991.9524228
- Description
- The East Cape, and in particular the Smaldeel area, is used to exemplify some of the characteristics and problems of commercial farming over a period of about three decades to serve as a backdrop for the broader theme of normalising South African agriculture. The regional economy is dominated by Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage and East London which account for most of the population and three-fourths of the Gross Geographic Product (GGP). Agriculture accounts for only 10% of GGP, but is one of the most labour intensive sectors in a region with 24% of its population unemployed. The agricultural economy of the region is very diversified, but livestock farming plays the most important part in all areas contributing 72% of gross income. The chief changes which have occured in East Cape farming, as elsewhere, have been the decline in the number of farms and increase in farm size, greater capital investment, increased specialisation and declining employment.
- Format
- 3 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Agrekon, Antrobus, G.G., 1991. THE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY OF THE EAST CAPE/Die kommersiële landbou-ekonomie van die Oos-Kaap. Agrekon, 30(4), pp.169-171., Agrekon volume 30 number 4 169 171 May 2010 2078-0400
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