Department of Agriculture reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Department of Agriculture
Coverage	1910-1990s
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	5
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Africa (1976)	Agriculture in the Economic Development of S.A. (Department of Agricultural Technical Services, 1963)	to 1963	Cited for the share of implements in agricultural capital assets and for the link between mining, secondary industry and agriculture.
Kirsten et al. (2007)	Government policy documents and budget reports of the Department of Agriculture	1950s-1990s	Source of production, consumption, input and trade taxes and subsidies, and the direct subsidies tabulated in Appendix Table 2.
McCann (2001)	South African Department of Agriculture Report, 1937 (cited in Keegan)	1937	Cited for the spread of dent varieties and mechanisation of maize farming on white farms.
Schirmer (2004)	Union of South Africa Department of Agriculture reports (1913, 1921, 1915, 1934, 1939)	1910-1939	Cited for the state's protection of farmers from competition and for farmers' complaints to commissions in the 1930s about labour tenancy.
Van Zyl et al. (1987a)	Unpublished reports of the Department of Agriculture (annual levels of parameters)	1945-1985	Cited as the location of the exact yearly levels of parameters underlying the trend analysis.