agriculture expenditure

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Agriculture Expenditure

Select Committee finance

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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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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

Administration

Professional Services

Veterinary Services

Natural Resource Management

Conservation

Environmental Planning andImpact Assessment

Waste and Pollution Abatement

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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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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 year’s 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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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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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 Security’s programme was expanded with 20 more staff.

4 000 homestead garden projects were planned and 4 200 were implemented.

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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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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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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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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

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