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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
GrainSA & ARC on Grain industry challenges; DAFF Fisheries progress report, with the Minister
24 Oct 2017
Grain SA briefed the Committee on the state of readiness for the planting season and the impact of Fall Armyworm, while the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) provided an update on the fishing rights allocation process (FRAP) and the oceans economy programme of Operation Phakisa.
Grain SA raised ...
NCOP Appropriations
CASP, Ilima/Letsema, Land Care Programme Conditional Grants performance: hearing; with Minister
17 Oct 2017
National Treasury and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) presented on the provincial agriculture grants. According to Treasury, the purpose of the Comprehensive Agricultural Support programme (CASP) was to facilitate agricultural development by targeting beneficiaries of land reform, restitution and redistribution, and other black producers who had acquired ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DAFF + MLRF 2016/17 Annual Report, with Auditor-General/DPME input; Ncera Farms deregistration progress, with Minister
10 Oct 2017
There would never be enough money for the State to buy land for all previously disadvantaged individuals.
That came to the attention of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries during the discussion session when the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA), Department of Agriculture, Forestry and ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DAFF on Quarter 1 performance, with Minister; Liquor Products Amendment Bill: adoption
5 Sep 2017
Committee members stated the Fisheries Management Division behaving like a delinquent juvenile and is a repeated offender after it became clear Fisheries has spent 53% of its budget yet it achieved only 29% of its targets. They foresaw overspending in this division. The absence of the Deputy Director-General of the ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Agenda 2063 and Malabo Declarations; Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme: NEPAD briefing; with Deputy Minister
20 Jun 2017
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development reported that Agenda 2063 has 20 goals divided into four sub areas: Industrialisation and Wealth Creation, Shared Prosperity and Transformed Livelihoods, Human Capital Development and Transformed Institutions, and Natural Resources Management and Environment Resilience. The Malabo Declaration has seven overarching targets which include recommitment ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries response to Committee oversight & BRRR, with Minister & Deputy
13 Jun 2017
No words, not in questions and accusations from the Committee or in apologies from the Department, were spared in the meeting between the Portfolio Committee and the Department on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries that went well over its allocated time.
The long-awaited organogram was again not presented. Progress on two ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Onderstepoort Biological Products; ARC; NAMC; PPECB on their Annual Performance Plan, FFC input; with Minister
9 May 2017
The Fiscal and Financial Commission (FFC) briefed the Committee on the role it plays in assisting departments and Parliament, and provided an overview of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s (DAFF’s) operations in the context of the broader economy. Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP), a state-owned entity under the jurisdiction ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DAFF & Marine Living Resources Fund on their Annual Performance Plan; DPME input, with Minister
4 May 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) explained to the Committee that it required the Strategic Plan (SP) and Annual Performance Plan (APP) of each department to be aligned with the priority outcomes in the Medium-term Strategic Framework (MTSF). The potential of Agriculture in creating one million jobs in ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Operation Phakisa: DPME and DAFF; National Food & Nutrition Security Implementation plan: progress report by DPME; Poultry industry: response from DAFF
22 Mar 2017
Three government departments – the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), and the Department of Social Development (DSD) -- had worked together to prepare the National Food and Nutrition Security Implementation Plan. The departments described the six strategic objectives that were ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Liquor Products Amendment Bill, National Forests Amendments Bill & National Veld and Forest Fire Amendment Bill: Parliamentary officials' briefing; Armyworm outbreak: Department briefing, in presence of Minister
14 Feb 2017
The Committee was briefed, by the Parliamentary legal advisors, on three amendment Bills introduced in 2016 by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (the Department). The Liquor Products Amendment Bill [B10-2016] amended the Liquor Product Act 60 of 1989. The Parliamentary Legal Advisors were happy with the tagging as ...