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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial YearService Delivery Measures Table 31: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P7: Agricultural Education and Training Estimatedperformance Medium-term estimatesProgramme performance measures 2024/25 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28Number of students enrolled to complete accredited Higher Education and Training (HET) qualifications 600 600 600 600 Number of students graduated with agricultural qualification 155 155 155 155 Number of participants trained in skills development programmes in the sector 2 251 2 400 2 400 2 400 Number of farm-workers completing accredited and/ or non-accredited training to develop skilled farm-workers 250 250 250 250 Number of farmers capacitated through commercialization program 20 20 40 60 The programme will ensure that the strategic partners and other role-players provide quality farmer training and other identified capabilities necessary to improve farming as a business. To increase skills set in the sector a total of 600 students will be enrolled to complete accredited Higher Education and Training qualifications. The National Education and Training Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development in South Africa has identified farmers training as one of the agreed upon indicators in the service level agreement which must be closely monitored and such 2 251 participants will be trained in skills development programmes in the sector. The identified farmers to be commercialised will be capacitated. 8.9 Programme 8: Rural Development Objectives: To coordinate the development programmes by stakeholders in rural areas. It has 2 sub programmes: %uf0b7 Rural Development Coordination: To initiate, plan and monitor development in specific rural areas (CRDP sites) across the three spheres of government in order to address needs that have been identified; and %uf0b7 Social facilitation: To engage communities on priorities and to institutionalise and support community organisational structures (NGOs etc.) Table 32: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P8 %u2013 Rural Development 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. Rural Development Coordination 190 106 210 763 192 483 199 317 196 588 196 588 208 997 217 296 226 018 6.32. Social Facilitation 16 572 18 140 19 633 17 593 21 832 21 832 17 134 17 937 20 259 (21.5)Total payments and estimates 206 678 228 903 212 116 216 910 218 420 218 420 226 131 235 233 246 277 3.52024/25 Tables 32 above shows the summary of the departmental payments and estimates for the Rural Development Co-ordination sub - programme from 2021/22 to 2027/28. The budget decreased from R228.903 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R218.420 million in 2024/25, mainly due to a once-off allocation for the protection of spring water. In 2025/26, the budget increases by 3.5 per cent to R226.131 million, driven by the reinstatement of ECRDA%u2019s baseline funding for its operational needs, which had been previously reduced due to baseline cuts. The budget grows moderately over the MTEF. 565