COMPREHENSIVE AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME Parliamentary Portfolio Committee 20 Feb 2008 Introduce Mr Bonga Msomi, Director Land Use and Soil Management responsible for CASP and Mr Bayethe Ndlaleni, whom we have appointed on a three year contract as CASP Coordinator
Expand provision of support services for agriculture development. COMPREHENSIVE AGRICULTURE SUPPORT PROGRAMME (CASP) DoA initiative to support PDA’s to create favourable environment for emerging farmers Expand provision of support services for agriculture development. CASP has six Pillars CASP accounts for 15% of farmer support budget
6 CASP PILLARS Information and Knowledge Management Technical and Advisory Assistance, and Regulatory Services Training and Capacity building Marketing and Business Development On-Farm and off-Farm Infrastructure and Production inputs Financial assistance
CASP MTEF ALLOCATIONS (R MILLION) 2004/05 200 2005/06 250 2006/07 300 2007/08 415 2008/09 535 2009/10 628 2010/11 758
Farmer Support: Equity vs CASP (R mil) (Source: Treasury Provincial budget Review - 2006/07.) Province Farmer Support CASP % Eastern Cape 365 57 16% Free State 75 25 33% Gauteng 28 7 25% KwaZulu-Natal 459 56 12% Limpopo 579 50 9% Mpumalanga 210 13% Northern Cape 52 16 31% North West 219 40 18% Western Cape 72 21 29% TOTAL 2 058 300 15% 5
CASP CONTRIBUTION SINCE INCEPTION Year Projects Beneficiaries 2004/05 510 46 500 2005/06 1070 53 200 2006/07 870 67 400 2007/08 817 51 300 Total 3 267 218 400 6
2007/08 CASP PROJECTIONS Province Projects Beneficiaries Budget (R’mil) E. Cape 116 8 698 70 F State 144 1 260 38 Gauteng 10 6 366 20 KZN 298 8 100 68 Limpopo 52 7 758 63 Mpumalanga 8 7 498 41 N Cape 19 1 955 29 N West 4 328 53 W Cape 107 5 390 33 Total 817 51 276 415
Provincial CASP expenditure performance as of 31 Dec 2007 PROVINCE Allocated as of Dec 2007 (R‘000) Spent as of Dec 2007 % Spent EC 55 869 43 262 77 FS 30 466 23 188 76 GP 15 723 14 947 94 KZN 30 946 13 128 42 LMP 50 336 14 220 28 MP 32 905 21 706 66 NC 22 843 15 387 67 NW 42 471 22 752 54 WC 26 740 14 822 56 TOTAL 331 993 185 412
CASP Expenditure Trends by provinces: 2006/07 vs 2007/08 ending December .
SELECTED SUCCESSFUL CASP PROJECTS PROVINCE PROJECT NAME LOCATION EC Lukanji Shearing Lukhanji municpality FS Operman Irrigation & Waya Waya Layers Boitumelo Area LMP Mukhutshwe Weigh Bridge Project Mopani District MP Mosley Irrigation Mbombela NC Tshwaragang Project Vaalharts
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