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Water and Sanitation
Water use allocation impact on farmers: Departments of Water; Rural Development and Land Reform; Agriculture
2 Nov 2016
Three government departments – Water and Sanitation, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Rural Development and Land Reform – put forward proposals for consideration when the process of legislation to amend the current Water Act gets under way.
The Committee was informed that in terms of the Water Act 54 of ...
Agriculture
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report; Committee Reports on oversight visits to Limpopo and Eastern Cape
28 Oct 2016
The Portfolio Committee met to discuss and adopt the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report; the oversight visit to Limpopo and Eastern Cape reports; as well as minutes from previous meetings of the Committee. The three reports were not given out to the public as they were draft reports which still ...
Agriculture
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) on all outstanding matters and reports
25 Oct 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries briefed the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries about all outstanding matters and reports of the Department. These ranged from the drought resistant maize seed, challenges on animal and plant diseases, distribution of veterinarians and mobile clinics, the DAFF’s integration process of ...
Agriculture
Agricultural Research Council & Perishable Export Control Board on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
20 Oct 2016
The Agricultural Research Council noted that it is aligned to national priorities and policies, including the National Development Plan, New Growth Path and the 2014-2019 Medium Term Strategic Framework of outcomes, as well as noted its contribution to realisation of priorities and outcomes. Six strategic goals were ...
Agriculture
Department of Agriculture, Forestry; and Fisheries & Entities audits: AGSA & FFC input
13 Oct 2016
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) and the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) briefed the Committee on the performance of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and its entities, to provide it with relevant background information for its meeting with the DAFF scheduled for the following Tuesday. ...
Agriculture
Plant Improvement & Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills: finalisation; Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries 2015/16 Annual Report: DPME briefing
11 Oct 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) should partly shoulder the responsibility for the slow growth and job losses in the agriculture sector, because it had not been successfully paying attention to investment constraints in the sector. The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) reported this when it ...
Agriculture
Fetsa Tlala Food Production initiative & conditional grants: Provincial Departments reporting Day 2
22 Sep 2016
Note: PMG was unable to record the early part of the meeting
The provincial Departments of Agriculture in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape , Northern Cape and KwaZulu Natal (KZN) reported to the Committee on their conditional grants and equitable share plans and progress. The Committee had specifically asked that ...
Agriculture
Drought response plan: GrainSA, ARC, South African Weather Service & Land Bank: Plant Improvement & Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills: voting
20 Sep 2016
The Committee was told that the objective of the meeting was to evaluate the drought response plan’s readiness to assist all stakeholders. The Minister of Finance had said that R1 billion funding would be released to alleviate the drought, but she did not think that amount would be enough to ...
Agriculture
Grain Imports; GrainSA and SA Poultry Association tariff application outcomes: ITAC briefing
16 Sep 2016
The International Trade Administration Commission briefed the Portfolio Committee on import tariffs of wheat, maize, sugar and poultry. The tariff regime for grains was called the Variable Tariff Formulae. On 24 May 2016, wheat incurred an upward trigger and would now cost 159.14c/kg from 122.43c/kg. The tariff on sugar, however, ...
Agriculture
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance, with Minister in attendance
13 Sep 2016
The current drought was the worst since 1904 and had had a devastating effect on the sector and agricultural value chain. The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) reported this when briefing the Portfolio Committee on its first quarter performance. About Forestry and Natural Resources Management (FNRM), TProvinces had ...
Agriculture
Plant Improvement and Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills [B8 & 11 – 2015]: further deliberations
6 Sep 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) took the Portfolio Committee through the rest of the Plant Improvement Bill’s clauses -- Clause 60 onwards -- in order to complete the deliberation and amending processes. The Parliamentary Legal Adviser (PLA) assisted with the reading of the bill, and each revised ...
Agriculture
Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill [B9B-2015]: President’s reservations; Plant Improvement / Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills: deliberations; Agricultural Research Council nominations, in presence of Minister
23 Aug 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), in the presence of the Minister, updated the Committee on three Bills. The Committee was firstly notified of the President’s reservations on the procedures followed by the NCOP in the passing of the Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill (PAPA) [B 9B-2015]. The ...