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Water and Sanitation
Drought and Climate Change progress report by COGTA, DWS, DEA, DAFF
16 Mar 2016
In a joint committee meeting, four departments presented their collaborative strategy in dealing with the ongoing drought and climate change. The National Disaster Management Centre of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) spoke about the joint drought committee of all relevant departments that has been set up ...
Agriculture
Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries response to Committee oversight questions, with Deputy Minister
15 Mar 2016
South Africans need to pray for the budget of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture echoed this when the Department responded to concerns of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on matters that arose from engagements with the Department. The Deputy Minister ...
Agriculture
Impact and response to the current drought: Agricultural Research Council, Land Bank, Industrial Development Corporation & South African Weather Input
8 Mar 2016
There is no indication of relief of the current drought conditions. This is what the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries heard recently when four state entities briefed it on the drought impact and what they were doing about it.
The Land Bank informed the Committee it had budgeted ...
Agriculture
Impact and Response to Current Drought: Red Meat Producers’ Organisation; National Emergent Red Meat Producers’ Organisation; SA Pork Producers’ Organisation & SA Poultry Association briefing
1 Mar 2016
The price of meat was going to go up as a result of the drought. This was the warning that came from meat producers when they briefed Members of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recently about the effects of drought on the meat production sector.
Price hikes ...
Agriculture
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on 2015/16 2nd & 3rd Quarter performance & impact of SONA on Department, with Minister present
23 Feb 2016
1 million hectares of land is lying idle in the rural communal areas. The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) made this revelation when it was briefing the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on its Second Quarter Performance and Expenditure Report.
Briefing the Committee on its six ...
Agriculture
Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries 2nd Quarter performance: Committee Researcher and AGSA briefings
16 Feb 2016
The Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the 2015/16 second quarter performance report of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF). It was highlighted that AGSA was not looking into causes of achievement or the quantification of targets but was reporting whether the information was verifiable ...
Agriculture
Fishing Rights Allocation Process; Small Scale Fisheries Policy implementation: DAFF update
9 Feb 2016
The Deputy Director-General of Fisheries is the delegated authority in the refusal and granting of fishing rights allocations. She noted that she has excused herself and her officials from invites, dinners, telephone calls and meetings involving fishing rights allocations.
This came to the attention of the Committee when the Department ...
Agriculture
Food Security and Food Safety joint workshop Day 1
2 Feb 2016
The Portfolio Committee On Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries hosted a two-day joint workshop on Food Security and Safety with the Portfolio Committees of Health and Social Development and the Select Committee on Land and Mineral Resources. The first day of the workshop focussed on food security. After a presentation by ...
Agriculture
Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill [B9-15]: adoption; NAMC nomination process queried
20 Nov 2015
The Committee with the help of the parliamentary legal team and the state law advisors, read through each clause of the Performing Animals Protection Bill before adopting them.
Members raised the following queries/comments: qualifications necessary for a National Licensing Officer; ‘Reasonable opportunity’ was not specified in the Bill which may ...
Agriculture
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
27 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Portfolio Committee’s Content Advisor provided a summary of the key financial and performance recommendations contained in the 2013/14 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report, and described those that had been brought to the attention of the Minister of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry ...