Encourage the development of the small-farming sector, as well as develop a more diverse support system for farmers. This will involve the integration of disadvantaged and small-scale participants into mainstream of agriculture;
Provide market access for disadvantaged market participants and recommendations to integrate them into a viable and sustainable agricultural system; Make funds available to train farmers and offer bursaries to students to study agriculture at tertiary institutions;
Encourage farmers to form co-operatives to market their products Make available land for tilling and rearing livestock
Eliminate the eviction of farm workers by unscrupulous landowners; Fight against farm killings; and Subsidise farmers, especially in times of famine.
In modern civilizations, people rely on meat, milk, and eggs as major sources of numerous nutrients. To satisfy this demand, sheep, goats, cattle, water buffalo, swine, ducks, geese, and turkeyschickens, are production that will be encouraged on farms all over South Africa.
Agricultural production presents many engineering problems and opportunities. Agricultural operations—soil conservation and preparation; crop cultivation and harvesting; animal production; and commodities transportation, processing, packaging, and storage—are precision operations involving large tonnages, heavy power, and critical factors of time and place. Facilities designed to aid farm operations help farm workers to minimize the time and energy requirements of routine jobs.
Agricultural policy is concerned with the relations between agriculture, economics, and society. Land ownership and the structure of farm enterprises were traditionally regarded as primarily social problems. The growth of agricultural production in the 20th century, accompanied by a decline in size of the rural population, however, gave impetus to research in agricultural policy. In the capitalist countries, this policy has concentrated on the influence of prices and market mechanisms; our polcy emphasis has been placed on artificially created market structures.