. The viability of the farms in terms of productivity, which would enable the farmers to eventually purchase the farms. . The PTOs, which are valid for twelve months, do not provide much assistance to farmers as they cannot secure loans from banks. . The legitimacy of the process of allocating the farms if after 3 years, they still have no official documents. . The extent to which these farmers were capacitated by the Department of Agriculture in order for them to be able to graduate from emerging farmers to commercial farmers. . Given the extent of the problems at Ncera, it looked as if the DAFF only made some effort to resolve the issue on hearing that the Committee was visiting the place. For example, if the PTOs were a simple matter as the DDG claimed, why did it take 3 years for the Department to issue those to the farmers? Resolutions of the Portfolio Committee