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Department: Rural Development and Agrarian Reform

6.3 Official development assistance (donor funding)

None.

7. 7. Payment summary

7.1 Key assumptions

The department applied the following broad assumptions when compiling the budget:
x All inflation related increases are based on CPI projections as provided in the National Treasury
guidelines (4.42 per cent in 2023/24, 4.45 per cent in 2024/25, and 4.48 per cent in 2025/26).
x Department will over the 2023 MTEF continue to ensure that allocation of budgets to SCOA line items
continue to reflect the application of the cost containment measures as issued by the National Treasury
as per Instructions 2, 3 and 4 of 2017/18 and Provincial Treasury Instruction Note 4 of 2017/18, where
spending on non-essential items must be kept at bare minimum or decreasing.
x Regarding Compensation of Employees budget the department has made provision for the filling of all
PTCM approved posts within the existing baseline.
x The department will continue to implement the AET strategy through Goods and Services in line with
National Treasury Circular 21.

7.2 Programme summary

Table 4: Summary of payments and budget estimates per programme
Main Adjusted
Outcome Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change
appropriation appropriation
R thousand 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 from 2022/23
1. Administration 487 719 445 974 431 581 446 315 448 210 448 210 466 971 482 565 504 826 4.2
2. Sustainable Resource Use And Man 136 140 114 824 131 555 138 047 140 020 140 021 142 651 144 500 151 061 1.9
3. Agricultural Producer Support And D 788 269 799 196 822 566 855 629 839 245 839 246 827 125 886 709 925 935 (1.4)
4. Veterianary Services 330 636 296 549 295 506 312 872 341 962 341 964 340 342 347 771 363 570 (0.5)
5. Research And Technology Developm 137 530 126 600 117 796 132 028 134 256 134 256 138 935 138 801 145 098 3.5
6. Agricultural Economics Services 34 104 33 758 31 868 35 555 35 087 35 087 36 236 37 867 39 448 3.3
7. Agricultural Education And Training 168 782 164 650 185 145 185 005 192 590 192 590 194 187 201 960 211 153 0.8
8. Rural Development 285 291 253 032 228 903 213 496 210 160 210 162 211 929 219 914 230 013 0.8
Total payments and estimates 2 368 471 2 234 583 2 244 920 2 318 947 2 341 530 2 341 536 2 358 376 2 460 087 2 571 104 0.7

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