• The DoA aims to lead and support sustainable agriculture and promote rural development through:

• Ensuring access to sufficient ,safe and nutritious food;

• Eliminating skewed participation and inequality in agriculture

• Maximizing growth, employment and income in the sector,

• Improving the sustainable management of natural resources and ecological systems, and

• Ensuring knowledge and information management

• AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (AADP)

• AGRICULTURAL BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT (AgriBEE)

• COMPREHENSIVE AGRICUTURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME (CASP)

• INTEGRATED FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION PROGRAMME (KIMS)

• KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (KIMS)

• NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (NRM)

• NATIONAL REGULATORY SYSTEMS (NRS)

• RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY (R &D)

INTERGOVERNMENTAL REGUALTIONS AND NATIONAL PRIORITES

• INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (isrdp)

• URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMME (urp)

• EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME (EPWP)

• The extended CASP and Land Care programmes received 9 projects for CASP and 133 individual Land Care projects for implementation in the current financial year.

• Budget R250 million and R64 Million for CASP and Land Care respectively

CASP

SCOPE OF CASP

The CASP is targeted to support the four different levels of clients within the farming continuum (slide7), and these are:

The hungry and vulnerable,

Subsistence and household food producers

Farmers

Agricultural macro-system within the consumer environment

ADJUSTED ESTIMATES OF NATIONAL EXPENDITURE

Food aid : WFP – seven SADC countries ;emergency food relief and rehabilitation of agriculture

Drought relief : R120 Million for drought relief

Swine fever : R20 Million for classical swine fever in the Western Cape