. The Agriculture's Ilima / Letsema Projects Grant intended to boost food production by assisting previously disadvantaged South African farming communities to achieve increase in agricultural production. A total of R650 million over the MTEF period is allocated for this grant of which R50 million is for the 2009/10 financial year. A transfer from the National Treasury in respect of this grant was only done to Northern Cape (R45 million) with the province only spending R16, 8 million of that total transfer as at 31 December 2008.