This department has been allocated R4,7 billion to address the many challenges that this sector faces; challenges which this ANC government inherited from the apartheid government in 1994 and which it has been endeavouring to overcome for over a decade and a half. Major allocations within this budget include R890 million for agriculture food production; R1,2 billion for food security and agricultural reform; R190 million for trade promotion and market access; R770 million for forestry and natural resource management; and R324 million for fisheries management.