The purpose of the Administration programme is to provide strategic leadership, management and support services to the Department. The Administration programme budget showed a nominal increase of 6.7 per cent while in real terms, the budget only increased by 0.76 per cent compared to the 2011/12 financial year. The increase as in the previous financial year is attributed to the incorporation of the Fisheries and Forestry functions into the Department and the inclusion in the programme, of the oversight role of the Micro Agricultural Financial Institutions of South Africa (MAFISA). Although the Department Management sub-programme of Administration constitutes only 4.7 per cent of the programme's total budget, its budget increased significantly by 40 per cent in real terms from R19.6 million in 2011/12 to R29.1 million in 2012/13.