Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005. / Some digitised pages may appear illegible due to the condition of the original hard copy / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the current level of aquaculture production in South Africa and
factors which will help with its further expansion.
Aquaculture provides jobs, can assist in alleviating poverty, can earn substantial
amounts of foreign exchange and can give rise to various multiplier and linkage effects
within the economy. As fishery products are processed further, it is significant that
benefits have the potential of becoming more pronounced.
Although the South African aquaculture industry has played a negligible role in the
development of the domestic economy, its contribution has increased in recent years.
Despite providing few employment opportunities, the local aquaculture industry is
export-orientated and has the potential of becoming an important foreign-exchange
earner.
In addition to being able to assist the country's balance of payments, a larger domestic
industry could, through its various linkages with the rest of the economy, provide the
impetus for the establishment of various related industries. It is not only through these
effects that the aquaculture industry could help create new employment opportunities,
but the industry itself becomes more labour intensive the further it moves down the
processing chain.
The prospect of these potential benefits has moved the state to establish various aids to
assist the development of the local industry. The most important of these are the
Strategy for Biotechnology Development in South Africa, the White Paper on the
Promotion of Small Business and a joint mariculture forum between industry and the
state.
There are factors in favour and factors against the aquaculture expansion. The benefits
are too important to be discarded. And the disadvantages can be eliminated by various
techniques that have already proved themselves elsewhere in the world. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die huidige vlak van akwakultuur in Suid-Afrika en die faktore
wat die uitbreiding daarvan sal beinvloed.
Akwakultuur skep werksgeleenthede, help met die verligting van armoede, dit kan
aansienlike hoeveelheid buitelandse valuta vir Suid-Afrika verdien en gee aanleiding tot
verskeie vermenigvuldiger effekte na die res van die ekonomie. Hierdie effekte is geneig
om van groter omvang te wees indien visprodukte verder verwerk word.
Alhoewel akwakultuur tot op hede 'n weglaatbaar klein bydrae gemaak het tot die
ontwikkeling van die Suid Afrikaanse ekonomie, het hierdie invloed in die afgelope jare
toegeneem. Die akwakultuur industrie onderhou relatief min werksgeleenthede, maar is
uitvoer ge-orienteerd en het die potensiaal om in belangrike verdiener te raak van
buitelandse valuta.
Behalwe vir die voordelige uitwerking wat die bedryf het op die betalingsbalans, kan 'n
groter akwakultuur bedryf, deur verskeie vermenigvuldiger effekte, aanleiding gee tot
die oprigting van verbandhoudende bedrywe. Behalwe vir die werksgeleenthede wat
hierdeur ontstaan, word die visbedryf algaande meer arbeidsintensief en voorsien dit
meer werksgeleenthede soos daar langs die waarde toevoegingslyn afbeweeg word.
Die verwagte voordele wat die industrie kan bied, het die staat oortuig om sekere
hulpmiddels tot stand te bring om die uitbreiding te bevorder. Die belangrikste hiervan is
die totstandkoming van 'n Strategie vir Biotegnologiese uitbreiding, 'n beleidsdokument
vir die bevordering van klein besighede en 'n akwakultuur samewerkingsplatvorm
tussen die staat en die bedryf.
Daar is faktore wat die plaaslike uitbreiding ondersteun en ander wat 'n nadelige invloed
mag veroorsaak. Die positiewe faktore is te belangrik om die geleentheid nie te benut
nie. Die nadelige faktore kan voorkom word deur tegnieke te gebruik wat hulself reeds
suksesvol bewys het.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/50471 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Kuhn, Gabriel N. |
| Contributors | Smith, J. du P., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic & Management Sciences. Graduate School of Business. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 113 p. : ill. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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