Farm murders have decreased in the last four years, national police commissioner Riah Phiyega said in Johannesburg on Monday.
"When we refer to data there is a progressive decline in the number of farm killings," she said at the SA Human Rights Commission's hearings on safety and security in farming communities.
According to the police's presentation at the hearing, farm murders decreased between 2010 and 2013.
Seventy-one farm murders were recorded during the 2010/11 period in 665 incidents. This fell to 56 murders in 514 incidents in 2011/12.
The number increased to 60 murders in 556 attacks in 2012/13. In the 2013/14 period there were 58 murders in 402 incidents.
Phiyega said government had invested much in the police.
According to the police's presentation at the hearing, all reported cases of violence on farms and smallholdings were captured on a database and analysed for sharing with the rural safety priority committee.
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