Smallholder crop farming is dwindling and this is why it matters
Such a fall in cropping makes rural households most of whom are poor, more reliant on food purchases, and at the mercy of price hikes
05 July 2019 - 05:07
More than 500,000 households in SA’s former homelands disengaged from farming between 2011 and 2016, according to Statistics South Africa. This represents a loss of one in five crop farming households.
The former homelands were the 10 areas demarcated under the previous apartheid system as places where indigenous, black South Africans were required to live, along ethnic group lines. With little economic base and no government investment, underdevelopment and..
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