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European agriculture in the settler economies is striking in that it does not conform to the principle, stated for example by Chenery (1960 (D3)), that agriculture declines in relative importance as economic development proceeds. In 1925 the share of European agriculture in Southern Rhodesian national income was estimated at 15.1 per cent; in 1955, after thirty years of rapid economic growth, it was still 14 per cent. In Kenya European agriculture's share of total domestic exports in 1926 (we have no national income data) was 62.7 per cent; in 1961 the figure was 64.8 per cent. However, within the sector there was a profound structural shift (Table 5.1) from a position in which maize occupied a predominant share of total acreage in the 1920s, to a position at the beginning of the 1960s in which European agriculture was dominated by plantation crops.
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European agriculture in the settler economies is striking in that it does not conform to the principle, stated for example by Chenery (1960 (D3)), that agriculture declines in relative importance as economic development proceeds. In 1925 the share of European agriculture in Southern Rhodesian national income was estimated at 15.1 per cent; in 1955, after thirty years of rapid economic growth, it was still 14 per cent. In Kenya European agriculture's share of total domestic exports in 1926 (we have no national income data) was 62.7 per cent; in 1961 the figure was 64.8 per cent. However, within the sector there was a profound structural shift (Table 5.1) from a position in which maize occupied a predominant share of total acreage in the 1920s, to a position at the beginning of the 1960s in which European agriculture was dominated by plantation crops.
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