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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) – 2023/24 Financial Year

explains the decrease in 2023/24, of 2.3 per cent to R118.818 million. However, there is a strong growth
over the outer years.

8.3.1 Service Delivery Measures

Table 19: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P3: Agricultural Producer Support and
Development

Estimated Medium-term estimates
performance
Programme performance measures 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26
Number of producers supported in red meat commodity 3 420 2 245 3 660 3 806
Number of producers supported in grain commodity 1 627 901 1 969 2 047
Number of producers supported in citrus commodity 38 22 24 25
Number of small producers supported 8 547 9 045 9 560 9 560
Number of subsistence producers supported 22 620 26 020 26 020 25 700
Number of hectors planted for production of field crops 28 529 27 090 28 800 29 575
Number of livestock enterprises supporte in support of sustainable agricultural value chain 370 393 393 423
This programme will mainly support the AET Strategy which is based on the commodity and cluster models
that seeks to enable rural communities. The focus will be increasing grain, horticulture production, and
livestock production.

8.4 Programme 4: Veterinary Services

Objectives: To provide veterinary services to clients in order to ensure healthy animals, safe animal
products and welfare of people of South Africa. The programme has 4 sub-programmes namely:
x Animal Health: To facilitate and provide animal disease control services in order to protect the
animal and human population against identified infectious, zoonotic and / or economic diseases,
through the implementation of the Animal Diseases Act (Act 35 of 1984), and primary animal health
programme/projects;
x Export Control: To provide control measures including risk assessment and health certification in
order to facilitate the exportation of animals and animal products;
x Veterinary Public Health: To ensure the safety of meat and meat products through the
implementation of the Meat Safety Act (Act 40 of 2000), the Animal Diseases Act (Act 35 of 1984),
and other relevant legislation.; and
x Veterinary Laboratory Services: To render veterinary diagnostic, laboratory and investigative
services that will back the control of animal diseases for adherence to hygienic standards and to
generate data.

Table 20: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P4 – Veterinary Services

Main Adjusted
Outcome Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change
appropriation appropriation from 2022/23
R thousand 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26
1. Animal Health 282 051 251 062 252 100 263 064 297 523 297 525 294 343 300 559 314 216 (1.1)
2. Veterinary International Trade Facilitation 10 442 10 082 9 339 10 938 9 859 9 859 9 855 10 032 10 483 (0.0)
3. Veterinary Public Health 16 410 16 045 15 454 17 198 16 236 16 236 16 246 16 788 17 550 0.1
4. Veterinary Diagnostics Services 21 734 19 360 18 613 21 672 18 344 18 344 19 898 20 392 21 321 8.5
–
–
5. Veterinary Technical Support Services – – – – – – –
Total payments and estimates 330 636 296 549 295 506 312 872 341 962 341 964 340 342 347 771 363 570 (0.5)

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