Agriculture
(a) What amounts have been allocated to his Department by the national Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for the current and previous two financial years under the Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP), (b) what amounts appear in the medium-term budgets for the next three years for the CASP and (c) what is the purpose of the CASP?
(a) CASP and Ilima/Letsema allocations for the current and previous two financial years:
Year |
CASP Allocation R‘000 |
Equitable Share Allocation | Total Available Funding |
Expenditure to Date R’000 |
% |
No of Projects Supported |
2018/19 | 316 254 | 10 000 | 326 254 | 324 832 | 99,6 | 58 |
2019/20 | 151 863 | 0 | 151 863 | 151 863 | 100,0 | 62 |
2020//21 | 90 343 | 0 | 90 343 | 60 778 | 67 | 44 |
Total | 558 460 | 10 000 | 558 460 | 537 473 | 96,2 | 164 |
Year |
Ilima/Letsema Allocation R‘000 |
Equitable Share Allocation | Total Available Funding |
Expenditure to Date R’000 |
% |
No of Projects Supported |
2018/19 | 55 662 | 0 | 55 662 | 55 662 | 100 | 969 |
2019/20 | 58 779 | 0 | 58 779 | 58 779 | 100 | 989 |
2020//21 | 40 888 | 0 | 40 888 | 24 828 | 61 | 900 |
Total | 155 329 | 0 | 155 329 | 139 269 | 89,7 | 2 858 |
(b) Medium-term budgets for the next three years:
National Grant Allocation | 2021/22 R’000 | 2022/23 R’000 | 2023/24 R’000 |
Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme | 118’856 | 122’797 | 128’323 |
Ilima/Letsema | 56 440 | 58 111 |
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(c) To provide an effective comprehensive post settlement agricultural support services, promoting and facilitating agricultural development by targeting beneficiaries of land reform, restitution and redistribution, as well as black producers who have acquired land through private means and engaged in value-added enterprises domestically, or are involved in exports.
