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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial YearService Delivery Measures Table 22: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P4: Veterinary Services Estimatedperformance Medium-term estimatesProgramme performance measures 2024/25 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28Number of visits to epidemiological units for veterinary interventions 9 266 9 127 10 020 10 321Number of treatments applied to sheep for the control of sheep scab to improve the quality and quantity of the wool clip 8 194 678 8 247 153 9 284 569 9 563 106Number of treatments applied to animals for external parasites control 3 383 664 2 662 277 355 871 3 661 523Number of veterinary certificates issued for export facilitation. 4 800 4 890 4 987 5 088Number of inspections on conducted on facilities producing meat 1 113 1 246 1 024 1 055Number of specimen tested for diagnostic purposes 101 850 106 942 112 289 117 904Number of laboratry test perfomed according to approved standards 73 715 75 189 76 693 78 226Number of performing animal protection Act (PAPA registration linences issues) 21 17 18 20The programme provide veterinary services to clients in order to ensure healthy animals, sustainable and profitable animal production enterprises, safe trade in animals and products of animal origin and the wellbeing of animals and the public. And a such 8.2 million treatments will be applied to sheep for the control of sheep scab whilst 2.6 million treatments will be applied for external 8.6 Programme 5 Research and Technology Development Services Objectives: To provide expert, problem focused and client centric agricultural research, technology development and transfer impacting on development. The programme has the following 3 subprogrammes, namely: %uf0b7 Agricultural Research: To improve agricultural production through conducting, facilitating and coordinating research and technology development; %uf0b7 Technology Transfer Services: To disseminate information on research and technology developed to clients, peers and scientific community and relevant stakeholders; and %uf0b7 Research Infrastructure Support Services: To manage and maintain research infrastructure facilities (research farms, laboratories) and provide support services to perform its research and technology transfer functions (i.e. experiment farms). Table 23: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P5 %u2013 Research and Technology Development Services Outcome Main appropriationAdjusted appropriation Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change from 2024/25R thousand 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2025/26 2026/27 2027/281. Agricultural Research 112 602 126 245 133 197 140 026 137 324 137 324 150 132 149 993 153 334 9.32. Technology Transfer Services 4 444 4 243 4 213 5 696 5 495 5 495 5 920 6 197 6 483 7.73. Research Infrastructure Support Services 750 1 218 1 176 2 529 2 529 2 529 2 023 2 743 2 892 (20.0)Total payments and estimates 117 796 131 706 138 586 148 251 145 348 145 348 158 075 158 933 162 709 8.82024/25Tables 23 shows the summary of departmental payments and estimates per sub- programme from 2021/22 to 2027/28. Expenditure increased from R117.796 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R145.348 million in 2024/25 mainly due additional funding to for wage agreement, provision made for the revitalisation of research centers with fencing of camps, repairing of machinery, procurement of Tractor Loader Backbone (TLB%u2019s) and Graders as well as provision for seeds, fertilisers, and animal feed for animals used for research to improve agricultural production. Additionally, reprioritisation to fund aquaculture development projects. In 2025/26, the budget increases by 8.8 per cent to R158.075 million mainly attributed to provision made for the construction of the Dohne aquaculture demonstration facility as well as the refurbishment of dilapidated property including research satellites. Over the MTEF the budget increases moderately. 559