This chapter reassesses agricultural productivity growth in South Africa. It finds that the statistical reporting of South African agriculture was heavily influenced by the country's past racial policies: agricultural data largely focused on white-owned commercial farms and gave inconsistent coverage of semi-subsistence black-owned farms (which were restricted to certain areas of the country). Thus, past measures of productivity performance mostly refer to the commercial sector, and could give a distorted view of the country's agriculture as a whole. The chapter also finds evidence of stagnation in South African agricultural total factor productivity (TFP), which is attributed to reduced public investment in the sector, particularly in agricultural research.
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