Chair, in the near future we will be announcing the parcels of land that will be redistributed to our people, especially new entrants, your people and women. We are currently working on the redistribution policy, the criteria that will be used to identify these young people and to identify women that will benefit from this land redistribution.

The intention of distributing this land is to expand the scope and scale of our production capacity as a country. We are allowing new entrants into the agricultural sector so that we can produce more food for our own domestic consumption and for export purposes. In this area, this sector of our work, we are expecting more and more small and medium enterprises that will be supported by government.

We are also tabling a new support model that will work and be shaped around the district model on how best we are going to support farmers - small-, medium-sized and commercial farmers - located in a district in order to produce. This support model should have all the support mechanisms that government can use to support small farmers, like your crops, your mechanisation. Everything we can do to support

small farmers will be found in the support hub which is located at a district level.

In this way, we want to make use of every space in our land, to cultivate the land, to produce more food, to fight hunger and to export this food. But, in the main, we are also encouraging provinces to support these SMMEs by availing their procurement processes, by availing their buying power as provinces as a market to support these small and medium enterprises - offer them a market for their produce. Thank you very much. [Applause.]