[OSGeo Africa] Looking for crop production data for the Eastern Cape per municipality

[Chris]

    No Offence -- but -- has the OP been to the Eastern Cape within whose 
    boundaries the old Transkei / Ciskei are contained ? Does he have any 
    idea of the import of his "simple" request ?

    May we ask what the information is needed for ?

    In that old bantustan agriculture was run on a communal self-subsistence 
    level. I very much doubt if any records were kept of what could have been 
    very little or no crop production -- in an agricultural sense. I remember 
    thousands and thousands of plastic bags decorating the fences alongside 
    the road. There was a commercial crop but one would have to check with 
    the guys down Lusikisiki way and the "Hippies" at Port St Johns. I wonder 
    if any of the old Bantustan depts would have kept records ? If they did 
    where would these be now ?

    There well may be records for the "other" parts of the Eastern Cape where 
    commercial ariculture was carried out.

    I would think that in these areas there would have been Farmers 
    organisations and probabaly a formal agricultural dept -- which quite 
    possibly did keep records. Eastern Cape Farmers Association -- or 
    something similar -- AgriSA  ( the "enemy" )

    You may have better luck with the people at PLAAS at UWC

    http://www.plaas.org.za

    ( IF I am not mistaken one of their opening page images is of the Eastern 
    Cape ? )

    For some background you could read Beinert , Bundy , Bunting , Trapido , 
    Delius.

    African Studies Centre Oxford

    Centre for African Studies UCT


    I could find all the info for you -- but who is going to pay for my time 
    ?


    CM



On 23 Jan 2013 at 9:22, Solly Vuso wrote:

> are you aware that 98% of land in the EC is owned by communities and
> private farms , am trying to come up with the solution on how you can get
> this information but for now nothing comes out of my mind, may be if you
> can try AgriSA
> 
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa) <
> L.Nhamo at cgiar.org> wrote:
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> >  By crop production I am referring to acreage, area harvested and yield.
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> > Eastern Cape per municipality****
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> > What do u mean by crop production ****
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> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa) <
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> > Dear all****
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> > I am looking for crop production data per annum per municipality of the
> > Eastern Cape for the past 20-30years in time series. Does anyone know
> > where I can get this data?****
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> Solly Vuso
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