Statistical information collected and disseminated by the Department is an aggregate of “all” farms in the sector. As a result, the production information collected, does not look at individual farming units in a particular area. A study has to be conducted, and a statistical model which comprises variables that can withstand scrutiny has to be developed. This will inform the “economic consequences that farm attacks in which farmers and farmworkers have been murdered have to the farming economy and produce”.
Without such a detailed study, the Department’s response to the question would be highly speculative.