Agriculture, 1910–33

Stuart Jones and André Müller
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Stuart Jones: University of the Witwatersrand
André Müller: University of Port Elizabeth

Chapter 3 in The South African Economy, 1910–90, 1992, pp 26-44 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The role of agriculture in an economy is determined by the size and quality of the land and by the extent of the economy’s development. A totally undeveloped economy will be totally dependent upon agriculture. In an advanced economy, such as that of Great Britain in 1910, there was only a minor role for agriculture. South Africa in 1910 lay in between these two extremes. Agriculture was important because it provided a living for the vast majority of the inhabitants; but it had not been the principal factor contributing to the rapid economic growth. It was, in this period, a laggard sector that was pulling down the growth of the economy rather than acting as a leading sector in the way that agriculture was in Japan or had been in England.

Keywords: European Economic Community; Agricultural Education; Mineral Discovery; Agricultural Labour Force; South African Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22031-1_3

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