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South Africa's Agricultural Economy in Brief

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  • Moncure, Robert C.

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Excerpts from the report: The area of the Republic of South Africa is 472,000 square miles or 302 million acres, about one-sixth the size of the United States. Nearly 90 percent of the area is low-rainfall livestock range country used for sheep, cattle, African and Angora goats, and African nonwool sheep. About 10 percent (30 million acres) is in field and fruit crops. The present irrigated acreage is 1.5 million acres, with an eventual goal of 2.5 million. South Africa produces a wide range of temperate and subtropical agricultural products similar to the American Southwest, California, and northern Mexico. It is Africa's largest producer of livestock and dairy products, sugar, corn, wool, pineapples, citrus, and deciduous fruits. It is self-sufficient in most agricultural products, growing more than 95 percent of the food consumed. Outstanding deficit commodities are cotton, tallow, tea, rice, and wheat. The country produces only one-third of its cotton needs.

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  • Moncure, Robert C., 1964. "South Africa's Agricultural Economy in Brief," Miscellaneous Publications 316387, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersmp:316387
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.316387
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