The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, through its Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP) provides training and capacity building programmes to smallholder farmers. One of the objectives of this programme is to assist smallholder farmers to acquire relevant technical skills to become commercial farmers. All the training interventions are needs based.
Total beneficiaries who received training through CASP during the past three financial years (2020/21 – 2022/23) is 50 985. In summary, various training programmes offered to these beneficiaries are categorised as follows: