The Department was appropriated a total amount of R4.96 billion in the 2011/12 financial year, which was R1 billion more than the R3.9 billion that was appropriated in the 2010/11 financial year (see Table 1 -above). Despite not achieving most of its delivery targets, the Department spent 99 per cent of its appropriated budget in the 2011/12 financial year, which is 2 per cent more than the 97 per cent expenditure that it achieved in the 2010/11 financial year. Slightly more than half of the Department's budget was spent between two programmes, namely, Programme 1, Administration (27 per cent) and Programme 3, Food Security and Agrarian Reform (25 per cent) - see Table 2. Approximately 80 per cent (R1 billion) of Programme 3's allocation was spent on Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP).