Title: South African agriculture at the crossroads : an empirical analysis of efficiency, technology and productivity /
Authors: Thirtle, Colin G., 1944-; Van Zÿl, Johan; Vink, N.; Van Zyl, Johan, 1956-
Publisher: Macmillan Press ; St. Martin's Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agriculture Economic aspects South Africa History.; Agricultural productivity South Africa History.
Contents: The agrarian structure and empowerment : the legacy / Masiphula Mbongwa, Nick Vink, and Johan van Zyl -- Agricultural policy : undoing the legacy of the past / Nick Vink, Johann Kirsten, and Johan van Zyl -- The public agricultural research system / Johannes Roseboom [and others] -- Measuring total factor productivity growth in South African commercial agriculture, 1947-91 / Colin Thirtle, Helmke Sartorius von Bach, and Johan van Zyl -- The sources of profitability : relative prices and productivity / Johan van Zyl, Herman van Schalkwyk, and Colin Thirtle -- Farm size and efficiency in South African commercial agriculture / Johan van Zyl -- Farm size and efficiency of smallholder agriculture / Jenifer Piesse [and others] -- The effects of the 1992 drought on productivity in the former homelands : an application of the Malmquist index / Jenifer Piesse [and others] -- Explaining total factor productivity growth : the returns to research and extension in commercial agriculture / Colin Thirtle and Johan van Zyl -- Cointegration and modelling the length and shape of the research lag / Yougesh Khatri and Colin Thirtle -- The effects of policy and technology : a profit function approach / Yougesh Khatri, Colin Thirtle, and Johan van Zyl -- A long-run profit function and a review of the returns to R & D / Carlos Arnade [and others] -- R & D and crop level supply response in maize, sorghum, and wheat / Robert Townsend and Colin.