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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The South African maize industry and the marketing act
Author:Pringle, W.A.
Year:1980
Periodical:South African Journal of Economics
Volume:48
Issue:4
Pages:380-388
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:market
maize
External link:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.1980.tb00674.x
Abstract:Price instability and low farm income are common features of agriculture under open market conditions. South Africa followed Britain, Canada and Holland in enacting legislation to overcome these problems, and in 1973 the Marketing Act was passed which provided for a system of regulated marketing and price control over a wide range of farm products. It was hoped that stable prices would encourage productivity as well as the production of agricultural commodities berst adapted to the environment. This paper studies the developments in the domestic maize industry during the period 1950-1979 in South Africa. Notes, tab., fig.
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