While food security and food availability is not yet a problem in South Africa, affordability is a challenge. We cannot say that our country is food secure when the poorest of the poor do not have a nutritious basket of food. To this end we have embarked on a mechanisation strategy. The programme aims to stimulate production for smallholder farmers. To date, 170 tractors, with implements, were transferred to Mpumalanga and KwaZulu- Natal. Unfortunately, when we transfer implements to our people, everybody smells corruption around every corner. We have made this process as transparent as possible. We are not giving people these implements. We are giving them to co-operatives and they will be managed by provincial departments of agriculture. They belong to the state, but instead of our people leasing agricultural equipment at high prices from commercial farmers, they now get it for next to nothing from the state. Obviously this is a radical programme and everybody will challenge it. We understand that. Through this initiative 500 permanent jobs have been created. That is only in two provinces. We anticipate that more jobs will be created as it is rolled out.