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Title:Agricultural marketing problems in the nineteen thirties
Author:Swardt, S.J.J. de
Year:1983
Periodical:South African Journal of Economics
Volume:51
Issue:1
Pages:1-28
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:economic history
agricultural marketing
External link:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.1983.tb00776.x
Abstract:Aim is to highlight the marketing problems which faced the producers and distributors of farm products daring the 1930s and which resulted in the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1937. Chapters: 1) The railway network. 2) Slow growth of agricultural production. 3) Marketing problems. 4) The co-operative movement (disappointments and set-backs - tobacco - the dairy industry and rationalization). 5) Maize marketing crisis. 6) Commission of enquiry. 7. Dramatic change: 1934-36 (widespread distress and Buffering - the conversion of a classical economist). 8) Enabling legislation for marketing controls. 9). Conclusion. 10) In retrospects. 11) The system in outline. App., fig., tab.
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