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    Experiences of the land redistribution for Agricultural Department (LRAD) program in the Ngqushwa Location Municipal are of the Province of the Eastern Cape, 2006 - 2010.
    (University of Fort Hare, 2011-01) Kambi, Nqaba Albert
    It has been emphasized in the literature on South African land reform that the Larid Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) system does not benefit poor farmers. This study also argues that the LRAD system is a conceptual framework for the establishment of commercial agriculture on redistributed land that excludes agriculture at a subsistence level. Thus, the LRAD system requires subsistence farmers to upgrade themselves to commercial status immediately upon entering the system. Although the system provides. for the establishment of group projects by subsistence farmers under a communal property association (CPA) or trust, the farmers still do not amass enough agricultural resources, financial and otherwise, for competitive enterprise at commercial level.
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    Land Tenure System and Agricultural Land Use: The Case of Citrus Farmers in Alice/Kat River Valley, Eastern Cape
    (University of Fort Hare, 2003-01) Mpukane, Mphangeli Witness
    This study investigates the decline in agricultural production in the Alice/Kat river valley of the Eastern Cape due to the fundamental problem of lack of land ownership by the black citrus farmers. The results indicate that the problems associated with the acquisition of land by blacks farmers emanate from laws that were passed by the former government to deliberately deny black people's rights to land except to work on white farms as labourers. Farmers in the Alice/Kat river valley lack land security and experience an unfavorable land tenure system. Thus farmers are unable to access the financial resources from banks to develop the land in order to alleviate poverty and improve their financial status. In addition, the lack of practical skills in land use planning among farmers has led to the under-utilization and low productivity of agricultural land in the Alice/Kat river valley. This study recommends the provision of land as security to financial access and land use skills training as essential inputs to reap the benefits of a profitable citrus industry.