In terms of farmer development and support, one of the targets was to have 10 000 smallholder farmers accessing financial services, which was also an exact target for subsistence farmers, although the Department has never given a distinct difference between the two or a proper definition of each. The vague difference that was given to the Committee was that subsistence farmers were poor farmers that were supported through Ilima/Letsema (mostly agricultural starter packs not financial services) and the smallholder farmers were supported through the Comprehensive Agriculture Support Programme (CASP) and the Micro-agricultural Financial Institutions of South Africa (Mafisa).