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Agriculture and Land • Agriculture is important for poverty alleviation
and food security• Land and water are important agric inputs • Provinces play key role in Govt transformation
& development agenda for the sector– Redress inequities in the access to farmer support
services (markets, technology, information) – Implement regulatory services for animal health– support land reform programme
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Agriculture• Strong growth in Agriculture budgets
– Combined budgets for national and provincial agriculture increase by 13,3% from R3,5 b to R4,1 b in 2003/04, by 8,9 percent over the MTEF
– Provinces account for strong growth, rising by 17,6 percent to R3,1 b in 2003/04
– Spending on agriculture accounts for 1,9 percent of provincial budgets
– Provinces that incorporated former homelands spent between 2,4% and 3,8% of budgets on agriculture
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Agriculture• Key agricultural programmes
– extension/farmer support– Veterinary services– Agricultural research
• Provinces spent 41 percent on extension– It provides services that facilitates use of land– Spending rise by 12,5% per annum over the MTEF
from R1 b in 2002/03 to R1,4 b in 2005/06– Poorer provinces account for most of the spending– More than 70% is spent on personnel– Agric colleges support development of skills for agric
personnel and farmers– Provinces spent <3% of budgets on training
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Agriculture• Personnel take up 2/3 of provincial
agric budgets– Provinces that incorporated former
homelands spent more than 70% on personnel
– These provinces carry supernumaries– Excess personnel is mostly in extension
programme and administration– Administration accounts for 20% of
provincial budgets
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Land Reform• Strong growth in land reform grants on
Land Affairs budget– Increases by an annual average of 26%
from 0,8b in 2002/03 to R1,6 b in 2005/06– Restitution accounts for the strong growth – Government will spent 2,9 billion between
2003/04 and 2005/06 on restitution– This will support increasing pace of
settlement of claims in the medium term
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Delivery of Land• Total land transferred through restitution
and redistribution approx 2 m hectares• Restituition Programme
– 69,00 claims are lodged with the Commission– 36,279 claims have been settled (>50%)– 512,912 ha transferred to 85000 households– R1,2 b paid in compensation
• 1,5 m hectares transferred to 129,093 households under redistribution programme
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Delivery of Support Services• Land reform increases demand for
support services• Provinces need to increases the quantity
and quality of farmer support services– increase in the number of skilled personnel – Access to start up capital for emerging
farmers– Improved farm infrastructure – dipping tanks,
fencing, rehabiltation of irrigation schemes– Increase the non-personnel recurrent
spending provide for complimentary inputs – travelling by extension officers, vet services