Hon Deputy Speaker, let me come back to the Minister, as the originator of this question, and say to the Minister that if we talk empirically, currently, I share the hopes and the wishes that the Minister is referring to. However, if we look at what we now have in terms of Statistics SA and of the graph in front of us, the decline of the contribution by agriculture to the GDP of the country has reached crisis point, from 11,5% to 4,5%.
Yet, in 2006 the then Minister of Agriculture, Thoko Didiza, said if we invested a R100 in the agricultural sector, we would be able to generate jobs than in any other sector. However, currently we have a situation that is reported to us by Statistics SA. I hear the Minister, and I would like to say that I share the wish and the hope of the Minister, but we need extraordinary measures to turn around the situation in the agricultural sector.
The MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES: Madam Deputy Speaker, I do not think that what the hon member Ngonyama just said was a question; it was a statement, which I agree with. Thank you very much. [Applause.]