(1) Whether any funding has been set aside to deal with the recent outbreak of Avian Influenza in the country; if not, why not; if so, how much funding has been set aside; (2) whether his department has put any measures in place to protect the country’s (a) poultry and (b) ostrich industries from the effects of the Avian Influenza outbreak; if not, why ...
More »a) No Direct Relationship
b) No Indirect Relationship
(і) No
(іі) No
(ііі) No
(іv) No
(a) The input supply programme of DAFF is implemented through the Ilima/Letsema conditional grants. The following is the response based on the verified 2016/17 Ilima/Letsema annual report.
Yes. There is a budget allocated to the input supply programme through the Ilima/Letsema conditional grant.
a) The table indicates the financial allocation per province for the implementation of the Ilima/Letsema programme aimed at supporting farmers and households with inputs to produce their own food.
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PROVINCE |
ALLOCATION |
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R’000 |
|
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Eastern Cape |
67 356 |
|
Free State |
63 178 |
|
Gauteng |
27 673 |
|
KwaZulu-Natal |
67 356 |
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Limpopo ... |
a) and b) The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries through the Branch Food Security and Agrarian Reform manages the input supply programme of DAFF as follows:
(i) The Chief Directorate Food Security is responsible for policy formulation, development of the norms and standards for farmer support and development, coordination of the food security interventions by other government departments, SADC and other stakeholders as ...
The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guides that the input support program must be needs-driven, flexible and easy to access, and should provide resources based on the quality of the project or farm proposals. As a result, there is no one size fits all input support package that is provided, but the farmer receives the inputs based on the technical assessment reports and needs identified. ...
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) does not source, supply or distribute agricultural inputs for farmer support programmes. The DAFF however allocates conditional grants which are transferred to the provincial departments of agriculture as guided by the Division of Revenue Act. The sourcing and distribution of agricultural inputs is the responsibility of Provincial Departments of agriculture. Daff further conducts monitoring of all ...
1. (a) The input supply projects are implemented in all nine provinces,
(b) and ( c) Annexure A provides the list of the municipalities and districts where these programmes are being implemented.
2. The amount that has (a) been budgeted and (b) spent over the past five years to support farmers/ projects with inputs through Ilima/Letsema is shown in table 1 below.
Table 1: ...
(a) Four (4)
(b) and (c)
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DESIGNATION |
NAME |
PERIOD SERVED IN POSITION |
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Director - General |
Ms N. Nduli |
16 July 2008 to 15 October 2009 |
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Director - General |
Mr L. Zita |
16 September 2010 to 16 August 2012 |
|
Director - General |
Prof EV Vries |
01 October 2013 to 22 September 2015 |
|
Director - General |
Mr MM Mlengana |
01 July 2016 – current (Was placed ... |
(a) The Department protects farmer seed systems through the implementation of the National Programme on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture. As an outflow of this programme, the Departmnt is currenty implementing the National Plan on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. This Plan aims to address most of the obligations placed on ...