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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) – 2023/24 Financial Year

8.6.1 Service Delivery Measures

Table 28: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P6: Agricultural Economics Services

Estimated Medium-term estimates
performance
Programme performance measures 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26
Number of research projects implemented to improve agricultural production 60 38 38 38
Number of scientific papers published. 5 6 7 7
Number of research presentations made at peer review events 22 25 25 25
Number of research presentations made at technology transfer events 24 25 25 25
Number of new technologies developed for the small holder producers 4 4 4 4
Number of research infrastructure managed 7 7 7 7
This programme will interact with commodity organisation and business strategic partners to support the
smallholder farmers thereby ensuring the achievement of the objectives of the Agriculture Economic
Transformation Strategy. The objective is to ensure that farmers earn income form their businesses.
Agribusiness support packages will be provided to farmers through this programme. The programme will monitor
market access, increasing number of productive and viable smallholders, increase farm Net Income, and value
addition throughout the value chain.

8.7 Programme 7: Agricultural Education and Training
Objectives: To facilitate and provide structured agricultural education and training in line with the Agricultural
Education and Training Strategy to all participants in the agricultural sector in order to establish a knowledgeable,
prosperous and competitive sector. The programme has 2 sub-programmes, namely:
x Higher Education and Training: To provide accredited higher education and training from NQF levels 5
and above to anybody who desires to study in agriculture and related fields; and
x Further Education and Training (FET) : To provide formal and non-formal training on NQF levels 1 to 4
through FET structured education and training programmes to all interested agricultural role players

Table 28: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P7 – Agricultural Education
and Training

Main Adjusted Revised
Outcome Medium-term estimates % change
appropriation appropriation estimate
R thousand 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 from 2022/23
1. Higher Education And Training 58 704 59 801 61 198 59 051 59 051 59 051 61 708 64 479 67 445 4.5
2. Agricultural Skills Development 110 078 104 849 123 947 125 954 133 539 133 539 132 479 137 481 143 708 (0.8)
Total payments and estimates 168 782 164 650 185 145 185 005 192 590 192 590 194 187 201 960 211 153 0.8

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