Agriculture Expenditure

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Agriculture Expenditure

• Select Committee finance

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Agriculture Expenditure
Year Allocation Expenditure Variance
01/02 19 610 18 137 1 473 92
02/03 23 682 22 393 1 289 95
03/04 26 842 26 951 (109) 100

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Agriculture Expenditure
Year Allocation Expenditure Variance
04/05 30 748 30 316 432 99
05/06 35 644 35 644 0 100
06/07 40 081 40 081 0 100
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Agriculture Expenditure
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Agriculture Expenditure
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Agriculture Expenditure Actual
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Strategic objectives

• Changed race and gender patterns of land
  ownership and active participation in the
  agricultural sector
• Improved levels of food security, particularly at
  household level
• Optimal and sustainable use of agricultural land
  for primary production
• Zonation of high potential agricultural land for
  exclusive agricultural use

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Strategic objectives 2

• Access to local and international markets for
  farmers, irrespective of scale
• Integration of primary production with the
  processing and service industries
• Sustainable employment in the agricultural sector

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Employment of funds

• The programmes implemented in the previous year
  were continued with and in addition
• One of the household food security projects won
  the first prize in the informal markets category,
  and another of the project won the best vegetable
  garden trophy in Ekurhuleni
• A decision was taken to use a substantial part of
  the budget to purchase equipment and tools for a
  new homestead garden project

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Employment of funds 2

• GDACE partly financed and or undertook quality
  control on the initiatives to eradicate invasive
  vegetation. 288 330ha were cleared
• 12 formal landcare forums were established
  throughout the Province
• A provincial IT based Agricultural Potential
  Atlas was developed
• The Agricultural Resource Audit was updated

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Employment of funds 3

• In order to manage competing land uses and
  support best practice decision making,
  assessments were carried out on properties where
  applications were received for change and use
  from Agriculture to any other use.

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2003/04 Financial Year
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Employment of funds

• The previous years programmes were continued
  with.
• A homestead food garden project was successfully
  piloted involving 500 homesteads
• The beneficiaries of the project were granted
  starter packs consisting of shade cloth, tools,
  seeds and compost and trained over three months
  to produce vegetables

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Employment of funds 2

• A conditional grant of R1,6m was used to clean-up
  the Klipspruit and wetland in Soweto under the
  Land Care programme

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2004/05 Financial Year
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Employment of funds

• All previous projects were continued as per plan
  except for the outsourcing of the establishment
  of 20 community food gardens, that was
  discontinued in favour of the homestead food
  garden project.
• The Household Food Securitys programme was
  expanded with 20 more staff.
• 4 000 homestead garden projects were planned and
  4 200 were implemented.

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Employment of funds 2

• Two farmer study groups were formed in addition
  to the existing three.
• A R4,6 million CASP grant was obtained for
  assisting emerging farmers with on and off-farm
  infrastructure development. 124 beneficiaries
  accessed the infrastructure grant under the
  programme.

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2005/06 Financial Year
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Employment of funds

• The following are the planned activities for the
  2005/06 financial year
• Upgrading of the Directorate to a Branch
• The implementation of an effective monitoring and
  evaluation system for all Household Food Security
  projects.
• Upgrading of the agricultural information system
  including the agricultural data-bank

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Employment of funds 2

• The zonation of medium to high potential
  agricultural land and the preservation thereof
  for sole agricultural use. This will be followed
  by the development of a comprehensive
  agricultural plan for the Province.
• The development of a new agricultural strategy
  that will have a major focus on
• Creation of agricultural hubs within the Province
• Emphasis on high value crops for niche markets

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Employment of capital 3

• Implementation of AGRIBBBEE
• Focus on emerging farmers whilst not neglecting
  the commercial sector

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Outer MTEF years
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Employment of funds

• The posts lower than senior management in the new
  establishment of the Branch will be filled
• Focus will be placed on the implementation of the
  new agricultural strategy
• The main theme of the strategy will be maximize
  the contribution of agriculture to the growth and
  development of the economy of Province.

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Employment of funds 2

• The main vehicle for this would be through
  creating agricultural hubs with highly productive
  smallholdings as the primary production units.
• Agro-processing and bio-technology will play a
  major role in this new initiative in the province