Agricultural Grants and Equitable Share Plans: Progress Report

1. PRESENTATION TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIESCONDITIONAL GRANTS AND EQUITABLE SHARE PLANS AND PROGRESS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES PRESENTER: MS ELDER MTSHIZA Date: 21 SEPTEMBER 2016

2. Presentation Outline National Development Plan : vision 2030 Grant Purpose Policy imperatives Programmes funded through conditional grants Programme allocations CASP allocations and expenditure at Q1 Ilima/Letsema allocation and expenditure at Q1 Planned activities aligned to APAP FetsaTlala readiness plan Flood and drought Disaster reports Extension Recovery Plan Revitalization of Colleges of agriculture Land Care allocation and expenditure at Q1 Land Care progress report

3. National Development Plan: Vision 2030 Chapter 6: An integrated and inclusive rural economy Grow the economy and increase jobs by expanding irrigated agriculture • Water use efficiency • New irrigation schemes Pick and support those industries and regions with the highest potential Focus on value chains and hence agro - processing • Job creation • Growing the rural economy Land Reform is key • Develop strategies that give new entrants access to value chains • Find creative combinations between opportunities, e.g. • Support successful communal farmers –security of tenure • Collaboration between commercial and land reform beneficiaries

4. Grant Purpose CASP To provide effective agricultural support services, promote and facilitate agricultural development by targeting beneficiaries of land reform’s restitution and redistribution; and other black producers who have acquired land through private means and are engaged in value-adding enterprises domestically, or involved in export. To address damage to infrastructure caused by floods. (since 2012) ILIMA/LETSEMA To assist vulnerable South African farming communities to achieve an increase in agricultural production and invest in infrastructure that unlocks agricultural production. i.e. Revitalization of irrigation schemes LAND CARE Toenhance a sustainable conservation of natural resources through community based participatory approach, create job opportunities through expanded public works programme model (EPWP), to improve food security and well being of society as guided by six indivisible principles.

5. Policy imperatives informing investments in 2016/17 • Create 1 million jobs (National Development Plan: vision 2030) • Put 1 million hectares of unutilised land under production by 2019 (FetsaTlala) • Support 300 000 smallholder producers by 2019 (New Growth Path) • Expand 1.5 million hectares under irrigation by 500 000 (NDP: 2030 Vision) • Ensure food security for all (Act 108 of 1996, Constitutional Mandate) • Ensure sustainable use of natural resources • Grow agricultural contribution to the GDP - driven by the Revitalization of Agriculture and Agro-processing Value Chains (RAAVC – 9 point plan) – through operationalization of the Agriculture Policy Action Plan.

6. Programmes/ initiatives supported through grant funding FetsaTlala (end hunger) initiative Extension Recovery Plan Farmer Training and capacity development Agricultural Colleges Revitalization Flood disasters (recovery work) Land Care Kaonafatsoyadikgomo Red Meat Development Programme (NAMC) SIP 11 Irrigation scheme development Agri-parks Food security initiatives Revitalization of Agriculture and Agro-processing Value Chains

7. Programmes Allocation in 2016/17

8. Conditional grants expenditure in Q1 of 2016/17 • Funds are allocated to provinces in four tranches • Monitoring of projects and programmes is conducted on quarterly basis by both DAFF and PDA • Funds are 100% aligned to APAP and RAAVC

9. Planned CASP activities aligned to APAP PRIORITY COMMODITIES FOR GAUTENG IN LINE WITH APAP Poultry Integrated Value Chain Red Meat Value Chain Aquaculture • Investment: R339 million + R9 million piggery • Planned projects: 115 • Jobs: 1 021 • Farmers: 7 135 • Provinces: all nine • Activities: • 25 stock and irrigation dams • 6 stock water structures • 70 handling facilities • 4 dipping tanks • 14 piggery • Sheep structure • 1 feedlot • Investment: R146 million Planned projects: 68 • Jobs: 268 • Farmers: 315 • Provinces: all nine • Activities: • 44 poultry structures • One year old chicks (inputs) • medicines • Investment: R44 million Planned projects: 8 • Jobs: 124 • Farmers: 438 • Provinces: FS, LP, MP, EC, NW, WC • Activities: • 6 aquatic nursery structures • Processing facility • Capacity building and inputs

10. Planned CASP activities aligned to APAP PRIORITY COMMODITIES FOR GAUTENG IN LINE WITH APAP Fruits and Vegetables Dairy Grain production • Investment: R416, 089 million • Planned ha: 12 718 ha • Jobs: 2 636 • Farmers: 1 228 • Activities: • Irrigation systems • Hydroponic structures • Fencing • Orchard structures • Packhouses • Storage facilities • Processing facilities • Fertilisers • Investment: R130, 050 million • Planned ha: 135 636 ha • Jobs: 1 021 • Farmers: 7 135 • Activities: • Production inputs • Mechanization • Labour (tractor drivers) • Storage facilities • ** Provincial equitable share and Ilima allocation not included in this allocation. • Investment: R23 million Planned projects: 6 • Jobs; 30 • Farmers: 257 • Provinces: EC, KZN, LP, NC • Activities: • Dairy structures • Boreholes

11. 2016/17 Fetsa Tlala in Hectares Fetsa tlala has a total budget of R880, 766 million (R344,098 Ilima, R536,668 CASP)

12. Summary of State of Readiness by Provinces

13. Number of Households benefiting from Agricultural Food Security Initiatives (backyard food gardens)

14. Irrigation schemes (Ilima/letsema)

15. Farmer Training and Capacity building

16. Extension Recovery Plan 489 extension officers are targeted to be recruited in 2016/17 and only Eastern Cape province recruited one in quarter one. 2 075 extension officers are targeted for training in 2016/17 and 162 received training in technical skills and generic soft skills (writing, communication skills etc). Issuing of ICT equipment as well as uniform is ongoing to improve image, visibility and professionalism.

17. Revitalization of Colleges of Agriculture

18. Flood Disasters Allocation for floods of 2012 to Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Western Cape – R76, 734 million (MP: R20,326m, LP; R15, 555m and WC: R40,853m) 1 806 farmers to be supported in 2016/17 10 projects in Waterberg district of Limpopo completed in the quarter under review (fencing, pump stations, dam walls, access roads and irrigation equipment. Repair work on infrastructure in Western Cape is delayed by EIA and farmers who still produce evidence for work completed In Mpumalanga, repair work and replacement of water pumps and equipping of boreholes on track.

19. LandCare programme approach Multi-disciplinary approach to address natural resources degradation in a intergrated manner aligned to Government developmental programmes: Outcomes 4 and 10 National Development Plan International obligations of United Nation to Combat Dessertification, Convetion on Biological Diversity, United Nations Framework on Climate Change Sustainable Development Goal‘s for sustainable development agenda. Advances the Agriculture Policy Action Plan & Revitalization of Agriculture and Agro Processing Value Chain through Climate Smart Conservation Agriculture

20. Percentage of National Landcare Funds Allocation per focus area in 2016/17

21. Progress on Provincial Performance Outputs in Q1 2016/17

22. Progress on Provincial Performance Outputs in Q1 2016/17 (2)

23. Progress on Provincial Performance Outputs in Q1 2016/17 (3)

24. Landcare Jobs Created During Q1 of 2016/17

25. Conclusion The programmes continue to perform well in achieving the set targets as outlined Delivering RAAVC targets Creating jobs Improving agricultural productivity including Conservation Agriculture, thus mitigating and adapting the sector to climate change by reducing carbon loss and sequestrating carbon. Funding remains a challenge as limited funds limit achievement of goals – coordination and partnerships with the private sector need to be driven consciously if significant progress is to be achieved. Operation Phakisa may provide solution to this challenge. Monitoring of approved projects is ongoing and national treasury has availed funds to assist DAFF to increase its capacity and strengthen programme management.

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