Hon Speaker and Hon Deputy Speaker of the North West Provincial Legislature,
Hon Premier of the North West Provincial government, Mme Thandi Modise,
My colleagues in the Executive Council,
Distinct members of the Provincial Legislature
Leaders of Political Parties present in the province,
and in particular, leaders of the African National Congress,
Executive Mayors, Mayors, Speakers and Councillors present here today,
Maloko a ntlo ya bogosi ka fa tlase ga boetapele ba ga Kgosi Mabe Representatives of all Agricultural organisations
Government officials
Comrades
Ladies and gentlemen
Honourable Speaker, I wish to start my presentation by quoting Sir Winston Churchill who once said and I quote "I am sure that we are masters of our own fate; that the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, we will succeed".
Our cause shall be to realise our departmental priorities as deducted from the Polokwane National conference resolutions, this year's State of the Nation Address and the State of the Province Address. As we do this, we build dykes to hold back the floods of unemployment, poverty and suffering.
For our achievements, we may have been lucky in some ways. But I believe that "lucky breaks" are nothing more than unexpected rewards for intelligent choices we have chosen to make. Success doesn't just happen because someone's stars line up. Success, in any situation or organisation, is something that is consciously created. It is a guaranteed outcome of deliberate series of acts that anyone can perform.
We shall therefore continue to strive to create very innovative ways of service delivery to redeem the mass of our people from the throes of poverty and hunger. It is with this feeling that I, today, present to you our departmental budget for 2011/12.
Reflection on our 2010/11 performance
Honourable Speaker, this august house has entrusted us with the responsibility to provide people of this province with certain needs,and I wish to confirm that we do not take this responsibility lightly.
It was during the month of May last year when I stood before this house, and committed the department I am responsible for, to embark on a number of activities with the primary objective of ensuring that the lives of the North West farming community and the general citizenry, are improved.
It is therefore my pleasure to report back to the house about the progress made in so far as some of those key commitments are concerned:
After launching the Agriculture Master Plan for the North West province in May last year, we made an undertaking to implement the second phase of that plan,which was to train relevant stakeholders on the effective use of the Decision Support System.
I am pleased to inform the house that in partnership with the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), 110 officials have been trained to effectively use this system. Sixty-three of these trainees are departmental officials whereas forty-seven are from the District Municipalities.
In addition to that,sixty farmers were trained in Conservation Agriculture under the Farmer Field School Approach programme. Preparations towards the implementation of the thirteen identified priority projects during this financial year are underway.
As part of our support towards government's Land Reform programme and to ensure sustainability of these projects, the department has made a commitment to support land and agrarian reform projects by addressing infrastructure backlog, over the next five years.
In starting to realise that goal,we supported a total of 105 land reform projects during the previous financial year. For this financial year, we intend putting more focus on farmers who acquired land under the Land Redistribution and Agricultural Development programme (LRAD) and now in distress from the Land Bank repossessions. For us to ensure meaningful impact and sustainability of these projects, we will for this financial year target 70 projects.
In reacting to the main pillars of the Extension Recovery Plan, reasonable strides have been made in that we have responded to the alarm raised by our Agricultural advisors on the shortage of pool vehicles, which to some extent, affected our level of service delivery.
We have recently purchased 19 pool vehicles which will be used by Agricultural advisors throughout the province, to enable them to translate extension services issues into real terms because their level of visibility will be increased.
Honourable Speaker, we are expected to ensure that by 2013, all practicing agricultural advisors will have upgraded their qualifications from Certificates and Diplomas to Bachelor of Science Degrees and Bachelor of Technology, as a means to deal with current challenges within the agricultural sector as professionals.
Through the provisions of the Extension Recovery Plan, we have been able to ensure that 39 Agricultural advisors get registered with the North West University (Mafikeng Campus) and 30 more were this year registered with the Tshwane University of Technology.
These Agricultural advisors are specialising in Crop production, Livestock and Agricultural Extension. It is expected Honourable Speaker that these Agricultural advisors will be exposed to appropriate farming knowledge offered by these institutions of higher learning, which will eventually improve their service performance.
Honourable Speaker,the Extension Recovery Plan has indeed breathed new life into extension.
To deepen our appreciation of the goals of the provincial Growth and Development Strategy as set,we have even in the past financial year, ensured the implementation of our flagship projects, and I will later in my speech present progress made in this regard, as I will also be tabling our future plans in respect of these projects.
Determined to build a more accountable and efficient public administration
Honourable Speaker, I am tempted to concur with James Stephens' quotation extracted from his book "Believe in your dreams and yourself" when he said, and I quote "So if you have a dream then just believe that you can achieve it no matter what. Even when you can’t feel deep in your heart any words of encouragement, just believe in your dream and your heart will finally show you the way.,."
I chose this quotation Honourable Speaker because if you can recall, this department was in 2006 declared dysfunctional and subsequently received Auditor General's adverse opinion for the financial year 2006/07. And because of our apparent intent to improve and advocate good governance, we moved from that expression to a qualification in 2007/08, followed by unqualified reports for two consecutive financial years of 2008/09 and 2009/10.
This consistent improvement proves that we are very close to getting a clean report,and as advised by the Auditor General,we need to thoroughly work on resolving all non-compliance findings. We had for that reason Honourable Speaker, embarked on a clean audit campaign for 2010/11, and I can with confidence declare that we are moving closer to a clean audit.
Our dreams continued to blossom Honourable Speaker, as the Public Service Commission report issued in October last year, revealed that we are ranked the second best performing department in the province in so far as our level of adherence to regulatory prescripts is concerned.
Honourable Speaker, we will do everything in our power to uphold our integrity and place good governance at the top of our corporate agenda.
We have a clear roadmap and will certainly heed the call of the President of the Republic.
Honourable Speaker, we have acknowledged that in order for us to strengthen the skills and human resource base of our personnel, training and development opportunities will be prioritised. We have during the 2010/11 financial year enrolled our junior and middle managers to undergo training on Advanced Management Development Programme offered by Public Administration, Leadership and Management Academy (PALAMA).
We are optimistic that this programme will to a great extent enhance their capacity to execute organisational objectives as Managers.
Honourable Speaker last year I informed the house about the technique we applied in concluding the process of implementing the Occupational Specific Dispensation and Job Evaluation outcomes for nationally coordinated posts, and I am pleased to confirm that we managed to pay all outstanding costs which amounted to R8.6 million.
Furthermore, Honourable Speaker, we have during the past year, introduced a unique electronic reporting method called Automated Programme Performance Information Management System. With this system, our reporting on performance will be recorded online and analysis on the departmental performance will be easily detected for required action.
Honourable Speaker, this system is one of the best practices of ensuring accountability and pro activeness in so far as our set targets are concerned. We will from this quarter, put this system into practice, as our performance reports will be online.
Striving for a prosperous agricultural sector
Honourable Speaker, North West province was one of the eight provinces which were affected by the higher than normal rainfall which brought widespread flooding, hitting the country's economy, provoking fears of food price hikes and threatening the country's food security. In our province, areas that were hardest hit were those along the Vaal River in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda and Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati districts.
We have as a result of the situation,conducted an assessment, and the findings sent to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as mandated. A ministerial decision is still being awaited on how farmers will be relieved.
This wet condition, Honourable Speaker, aggravated the possible outbreak of Rift Valley fever which we had seen earlier in the previous year. This situation was not unique to our province, since most parts of the country had sporadic outbreaks which were also exacerbated by the high level of rainfall.
Honourable Speaker, we have identified the need for us to intensify our veterinary services awareness, with the view to encourage farmers to vaccinate their animals with the right vaccination, and at the right time.
We also intend to embark on vigorous surveillance programmes for early detection of Foot and Mouth disease within the province.
During this financial year, our target is to ensure that more than two-hundred-thousand animals get vaccinated against Anthrax, about sixteen-thousand get vaccinated against Rabies, and a maximum of twenty- eight-thousand get vaccinated against Brucellossis. These diseases Honourable Speaker, are those that we are legislated to control.
To ensure that our plans are actively put into practice, we will before the end of this first quarter, launch the Primary Animal Health care programme in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati. With this programme, the results of basic veterinary care will be evident since accessibility to veterinary services will be increased. We have set aside a total of R1m to implement this programme and our concentration will be around Comprehensive Rural Development sites.
Honourable Speaker, we are supportive of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries' resolve to create a vaccine bank to counter major trans-boundary animal disease outbreaks. This undertaking will go a long way in ensuring that the status of the country is not compromised with any of its trading partners.
Honourable Speaker, agriculture remains a serious business, and more so, with the current food price increases and cost-price squeeze, the industry is becoming very tricky and sometimes quite expensive. It is for that and other reasons that we need tough, innovative and creative agribusiness professionals and entrepreneurs to match the new risks and make a mark to be able to compete with the best in the world.
Through the provision of quality agricultural education at the two colleges of Agriculture in the province, graduates especially of the Potchefstroom College of Agriculture have always been distinct from graduates from other Colleges.
These graduates have achieved a lot of acclaim over the years and continue to achieve even better in the farmer training field in that, they fit with ease in any sector of the industry, from production, agro-processing, agri-business, research, to agricultural advisory service, just to mention a few.
Honourable Speaker, Potchefstroom College of Agriculture is the only college in the country which has as part of its curriculum, an international exchange programme with its partners in Europe.
It is also the only College that has introduced a state of the art, sophisticated simultaneous radio interpretation system to allow lecturers to teach in the language they are best at, while allowing students the freedom to choose from either Afrikaans or English as their medium of instruction.
Regardless of the fractional image that was portrayed early this year on the state of affairs at the Potchefstroom College of Agriculture, I want to Honourable Speaker, re-affirm my department's pledge towards the refurbishment of the college premises.
It has never been our intention, and it will never be our plan, to compromise the image that we have successfully built over the years, by not taking into consideration the state of the college buildings.
We will during this financial year, through the assistance of the Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport, renovate three hostels and a research building. Completion of this mammoth project is expected in the next financial year.
We are at this stage Honourable Speaker, in the process of applying for re-accreditation on mixed farming for this institution, since all institutions of higher learning are expected to undergo this process on a periodical basis.
For Taung Agricultural College, it will be a new application for accreditation to offer a Diploma in Agriculture, specialising in irrigation. This type of accreditation is much relevant to this institution based on the agro ecological area of Taung.
You will recall Honourable Speaker that, this institution was re-opened last year. We are however working seriously to bring it at par with Potchefstroom College of Agriculture.
However, it must be known, Honourable Speaker, that accreditation for the two institutions will not come easy, because we must meet the set requirements for us to get accredited. We have as a result, set aside R9 million that will be used to ensure that our colleges' infrastructure and equipment are upgraded to the level that will help us meet the set requirements.
Honourable Speaker, allow me to inform the house that stakeholders in the dairy industry support the initiative to transform this industry, and have committed themselves to developing the North West Dairy Transformation Strategy, that will provide inputs for the envisaged National Dairy Transformation Strategy. In consultation with relevant stakeholders, we will ensure that the North West Dairy Transformation strategy is developed by the end of August this year.
With our undivided support, the dairy industry will be shaped up and the development of subsistence farmers will be realised.
Honourable Speaker, since 1999, we have been recognising and financially rewarding women farmers through the annual Female Farmer of the year competition, which was last year reviewed and is now called Female Entrepreneur of the Year competition.
Female farmers who have participated in this competition have confirmed that this platform is continuing to expose them to various aspects of farming and that it remains to be a source of inspiration which leads to positive growth of their farming businesses.
I take this opportunity to encourage farmers who have made it to this competition, to view their selection as a sound image of the valuable and indispensable contribution they make to the farming industry.
A special word of encouragement goes to Mme Perseverance Madoda of Baphuthing Farm in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District who was announced as the North West Female Entrepreneur of the year 2010, and a youth group called Mogogakgomo Vegetable project in Bojanala Platinum District which scooped the National award as the Best Subsistence Producer.
Ka puo ya rona ya Setswana ra re, Nko ya kgomo mogala tshwara thata,e sere go utlwa sebodu wa kgaoga.
We will even this year Honourable Speaker, work together with women farmers and help them get the exposure they need, for their projects to prosper.
In our attempt to shift farmers' focus away from the traditional farming, we have last year experienced the first sowing of seedlings of the magical essential oil bearing plant called Rose Geranium, for the first time at Opperman village in the Moretele Local municipality.
Honourable Speaker, this project is expected to change the lives of Opperman community, by transforming them into producers of essential oils, which will be processed into perfumes, soaps and other fragrances.
We have through our Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP), injected an amount of R3 m in this project, and have partnered with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) which is continuing to provide support to the project, through its expertise.
Providing support for communities to realise their agricultural practice
Honourable Speaker, the State President, Mr Jacob Zuma has during his State of the Nation Address, declared 2011 as the year of job creation. In doing so, the President was calling on all of us to put job creation firmly on top of government's agenda.
The President said and I quote "All government departments will be required to put the appropriate programmes in place and establish the right environment for the creation of many decent and sustainable jobs in every way possible".
We have also taken very seriously, directives from the State of the Province address (SOPA) delivered by Premier Mme Thandi Modise and the resolutions taken during the recently held Provincial Growth and Development Indaba wherein we were challenged to effectively take advantage of the sector's potential for economic empowerment and growth.
To react actively to this clarion call, we will ensure that through our flagship programme as well as the Comprehensive Rural Development programme, more than 12 000 jobs are created and service delivery is advanced.
Honourable Speaker our collaboration with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the North West University on the re-introduction and distribution of Nguni cattle to subsistence farmers, has been successful.
To deepen our appreciation of this declaration Honourable Speaker, allow me to give this house a detailed data about the distribution of Nguni cattle since the inception of this project.
We have a total number of 851 Nguni cattle distributed to 37 sites and the distribution break-down per district is as follows: nine sites in Ngaka Modiri Molema, nine sites in Dr Kenneth Kaunda, nine sites in Bojanala Platinum and 10 sites in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati.
The total number of legitimate beneficiaries in all these sites is 121. Fifty-two (52) of them are women, 15 are youths, and 54 are men. Of these 37 sites, 14 are in groups or cooperatives and 23 are individuals.
We have undertaken to ensure that each district of this province benefits from each distribution process, and the reported figures prove that we have managed to live up to that commitment. I hope this break-down Honourable Speaker, is justifiable enough to declare reports on the alleged uneven distribution of the cattle, as unfounded.
Mmusa-kgotla ke rata go tsaya tshono eno go akgola bangwe ba baamogedi ba dikgomo tsa Nguni ba ba tsweletseng go bontsha boineelo mo projekeng eno, ka ba setse ba atisitse leruo Ia bona go feta makgetlho ale mabedi.
Bangwe ba bona ba setse ba itsesitse lefapha fa ba le mo seemong sa go ka busetsa mo projekeng dikgomo tse di solofetsweng di le some-pedi, mme bona ba akaretsa Mme Tryphina Penyenye wa kwa motseng wa Ramatlabama, Rre Oupa Mvala wa kwa Matlosana, Eska Nguni Cattle Cooperative ya kwa Ganyesa gammogo le Bafokeng Nguni Cattle Project ya kwa Rustenburg.
Each of the beneficiaries who received the cattle from the first distribution batch in 2006, is expected to bring 12 of these cattle back to the project, in February next year.
Let me also take this opportunity to inform the house that since this project is about to reach its final stage, we are still in discussion with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) with the view to extend this project for a few more years. We have already for this year, committed R1.5 million towards this project.
Honourable Speaker as part of Phase 2 of the Western Frontier Beef Beneficiation Programme, we have appointed 50 young people who are currently on the National Skills Fund meat processing learnership at the Vryburg, Rustenburg, Brits and Hammanskraal abattoirs.
This learnership programme commenced last year in May, and we are expecting them to have completed the programme by the end of next month (May 2011). A total amount of R11.43 million has been spent on skills development and infrastructure development for Watervoorsien and Moheelo Cooperatives, since the inception of the programme.
The biggest challenge confronting the full scale roll out of this programme, Honourable Speaker, is the availability of land. Submissions have been sponsored to the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform to assist in this regard and discussions are still continuing.
The business plan as well as business models for Phase 2 of the project have been completed and discussions with potential funders have commenced for possible implementation during this financial year.
Honourable Speaker, the rural nature of our province makes it inevitable for communities to be dependent on Agriculture. As a result of this situation, food security programmes must take centre stage.
Through Letsema Ia Mantshatlala programme, we have consistently managed to distribute agriculture starter packs to households in rural areas. These starter packs include seedlings for destitute families to start backyard vegetable gardens for household food security, chicken layers and pigs to start agricultural projects that can go a long way in sustaining households needs, and training on how to manage these projects profitably and sustainably. To ensure sustainability, we continue to provide extension advisory services.
A total of 922 households have been verified as food insecured during the period under review. Fifty (50) schools and 60 community gardens were established and supported during the reporting period. More than six hundred households also benefitted from the food security interventions implemented through this programme.
Honourable Premier, your request for us to establish a vegetable garden which will be of beneficial to people living with HIV and AIDS did not fall on deaf ears. We are pleased to inform the house that we have identified a site for Ngaka Modiri Molema district, and the initial planning of this project will be rolled out in this financial year. We have set aside five hundred thousand rand for this project and we are considering expanding this initiative to other three districts in the ensuing years.
We will in partnership with the Departments of Health and Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities as well as municipalities, work together to ensure that the objective of this initiative bears fruit.
Honourable Speaker, in our endeavor to bring markets closer to farmers and to ensure proper management and control of stray animals, we have during the past financial year constructed six livestock handling facilities to the value of R2.9 million as part of our contribution towards Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CROP) in the Moses Kotane Local Municipality.
Three years ago, we resolved to construct one multi-purpose livestock handling facility for each district per financial year, and I am pleased to inform the house that we have never failed to implement that resolution.
So far, the two areas that have been covered are Bedwang in Bojanala Platinum district and Taung in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati. We will this year, construct a multi-purpose livestock handling facility for Dr Kenneth Kaunda district at Ventersdorp. For this massive project, we have set aside a total of R3 million to get it completed.
We have over the past three years, committed our efforts to rehabilitating the Taung irrigation scheme equipment and system with the view to reduce high maintenance costs, raise net farm income and factor productivity. We have also prioritised the repairing of existing canal to address the problem of water loss, drainage system, roads infrastructure and maintenance thereof.
I am pleased to inform the house that finally,we have successfully completed the replacement of center pivots for this irrigation scheme. Phase one of the drainage project has also been completed and we have started with the main canal repairs.
Institutional arrangements at the Taung Irrigation Scheme are being reviewed and five primary cooperatives were established as part of this process. One secondary cooperative has also been established to support the existing primary cooperatives.
Honourable Speaker, the subject on the establishment of a fresh produce hub for our farmers has been on our service delivery agenda since 2009. A feasibility study has since been conducted by the National Agricultural Marketing Council, the outcome of which directed us to Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati district.
In our effort to give substance to the new growth path and to fortify the agriculture sector as a potential growth area for the economy, we will in line with the outcome of this feasibility study, establish a fresh produce depot in Taung.
This area was chosen because of the departmental interventions already taking place in that area, in terms of irrigation infrastructure and mechanisation.
Post handling of horticultural produce and inability of most smallholder farmers to access formal markets will now be a thing of the past for more than 175 vegetable producers from in and around the Taung Irrigation Scheme. They have already registered their cooperative as Taung Fruit and Veg Hub.
We will during this financial year, inject R6 million into this project for production inputs and further infrastructural development.
In our effort to encourage market-oriented production,we have already linked the Taung Fruit and Veg Hub to both Klerksdorp and Kimberly Fresh Produce Markets before they even embark on production.
Similarly, Honourable Speaker, we will this year establish a seedling cooperative to be run by four young women and three young men from Miga village outside Mahikeng. Miga Youth Seedling Cooperative as they have been registered will produce vegetable and fruit seedlings and sell them to the neighboring commercial industries.
Their proximity to the border of Botswana will enable them to tap into the international market as the need for seedling production in that country has also been identified. We will as a department support this cooperative by purchasing from this project, required seedlings for our Letsema Ia Mantshatlala programme.
Re rotloetsa thata le mafapha a tshwana le Ia Boitekanelo le Ia Tlhabololo-loago go ema nokeng koporasi eno ka nako ee tlaabong e dira sentle, gore e tie e kgone go tsepama le go gala. Ka tsela eo, palo ya go tlhola ditiro e tla gala, ba-garona ba ba lwalang batla nna le dijo, lehuma le lana le tla fokotsega.
This project will be implemented over a period of three years, and for this financial year, we have set aside a total of R450 000, which will be used to establish seedling infrastructure.
We must Honourable Speaker,acknowledge the contribution pledged by Agri North West towards this noble project,as they have indicated their interest and availability in mentoring this group. Indeed, if we work together, we can do more.
Striving for vibrant and sustainable livelihoods
Honourable Speaker we have piloted Comprehensive Rural Development programme at Mokgalwaneng and we are now convinced that based on the lessons learned during the piloting stage, we are ready to effectively roll out the Comprehensive Rural Development programme to other sites.
We have managed to implement most of the deliverables committed through our basket of service, and this progress can only mean one thing; that Moses Kotane Local Municipality's Ward 29 communities'lives will never be the same again.
We will even this year, continue implementing some of the outstanding and new projects, amongst which is the electronic Rural Access Programme to be funded by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform.
The aim of this programme is to accelerate socio-economic development in the rural parts of South Africa through the innovative use of Information Communication Technology. The intention is to make online resources, information and services a reality to rural communities.
We identified five more sites for the roll out of the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme.
The five sites identified are:
1. Ward one in Ratlou local Municipality (Ngaka Modiri Molema District)
2. Ward 10 in Greater Taung Local Municipality (Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District)
3. Ward 1in Kagisano-Molopo Local Municipality (Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District)
4. Ward 6 in Maquassi Hills Local Municipality (Dr Kenneth Kaunda District)
5. Ward 3 in Ventersdorp Local Municipality (Dr Kenneth Kaunda District)
Needs analysis for all these sites have been conducted,and plans are already underway to get the physical projects off the ground. We must acknowledge Honourable Speaker that without the support and commitment by all our council of stakeholders, we would not be where we are in terms or rural development. We really appreciate their understanding of the need to develop our rural areas.
New sites for 2011/12 will during the course of this financial year be identified, and this will be done through extensive consultation with relevant stakeholders.
In line with the National CROP framework, we will spend two years on each site to ensure that by the time we move to other rural areas, what we have started, is without any doubt completed.
In conclusion
Honourable Speaker, as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, we have genuinely re-prioritised our activities in line with the government's outcome based performance approach. We are also certain that with our set targets, we will be contributing greatly to the United Nation's Millennium Development Goal number one, which talks to the need for countries to eradicate hunger and poverty by stimulating food production and kick-starting economic development initatives.
Indeed, I must admit that whatever we have achieved has been a team work. For nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone.
Albert Einstein once remarked "many times a day I realise how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead". Ronald Reagan said,''there is no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
In sharing the sentiments of Einstein and Reagan, I wish to thank my colleagues in the Executive Council for their relentless support; the portfolio committee for their advice and guidance; colleagues in the legislature for their vigilant oversight role.
My appreciation to the departmental management and staff for their toil and sacrifice; and all stakeholders especially our farmers whose challenges allow us to shape and refine our policies.
To rre Mosweu Paul Mogotlhe, our former Head of department whose contract with the Public Service came to an in March this year; your dedication, your decisiveness and your systematic approach to public administration did not go unnoticed.
I wish to also take this opportunity to acknowledge Mr Iqbal Motala, who has since taken over the baton of office from Mr Mogotlhe, as Head of Department. With his extensive experience in Public Service administration, we are confident that he will be able to steer the ship until a substantive Head of Department is appointed.
Honourable Speaker, I believe that even amid today's challenges and difficulties, there is still hope for a brighter future once we hold true to the spirit and letter of this budget speech.
I therefore take pleasure in tabling vote 13 for the 2011/12 financial year, for approval by the house:
The 2011/12 budget
1. Programme 1: Administration - R170,271 million
2. Programme 2: Agricultural Services
- Sub Programme 2.1: Agricultural Support Services - R66, 543 million
- Sub Programme 2.2: District Services - R431,366 million
3. Programme 3: Rural Development - R90,655 million
Total Budget - R758, 835 million
