Question NW1024 to the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

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22 April 2022 - NW1024

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Msimang, Prof CT to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

Whether her department has recorded any negative economic consequences to the farming economy and produce due to farm attacks in which farmers and farm workers have been murdered; if not, why not; if so, what are the full relevant details with specific reference to the areas of concern?

Reply:

Statistical information collected and disseminated by the Department is an aggregate of “all” farms in the sector. As a result, the production information collected, does not look at individual farming units in a particular area. A study has to be conducted, and a statistical model which comprises variables that can withstand scrutiny has to be developed. This will inform the “economic consequences that farm attacks in which farmers and farmworkers have been murdered have to the farming economy and produce”.

Without such a detailed study, the Department’s response to the question would be highly speculative.

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