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

8.4.1 Service Delivery Measures

Table 22: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P4: Veterinary Services

Estimated Medium-term estimates
performance
Programme performance measures 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26
Number of visits to epidemiological units for veterinary interventions 11 493 11 580 12 583 13 212
Number of treatments applied to sheep for the control of sheep scab to improve the quality and quantity of the wool clip 7 888 041 8 115 412 8 409 309 8 829 774
Number of treatments applied to animals for external parasites control 3 928 067 4 091 622 4 423 824 4 645 015
Number of veterinary certificates issued for export facilitation. 4 564 4 664 4 764 5 002
Number of inspections on conducted on facilities producing meat 916 988 1 010 1 061
Number of samples collected for targeted animal desease survailance 69 357 111 393 116 962 118 810
Number of laboratry test perfomed according to approved standards 40 000 45 300 50 600 53 130
Number of performing animal protection Act (PAPA registration linences issues) 16 18 20 21
The programme is a crucial component of livestock programmes, providing animal health services such
as the vaccination of 1.5 million animals against controlled diseases, certification of experts (animals and
animal products), control of sheep scab and treatment of animals to control external parasites.

8.5 Programme 5 Research and Technology Development Services

Objectives : To render expert and needs based research, development and technology transfer services
impacting on development objectives. The programme has the following 3 sub-programmes, namely:
x Research: To conduct, facilitate and co-ordinate research and to participate in multi-disciplinary
development projects;
x Technology Transfer Services: To disseminate information on research and technology developed to
clients; and
x Infrastructure support services: To provide and maintain infrastructure facilities for the line function to
perform their research and other functions (i.e. experiment farms).

Table 23: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P5 – Research and
Technology Development 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. Agricultural Research 130 269 121 187 112 602 125 460 146 815 146 815 132 755 130 641 136 565 (9.6)
2. Technology Transfer Services 6 001 4 648 4 444 5 294 -13 908 -13 908 4 335 5 631 5 887 (131.2)
3. Research Infrastructure Support Services 1 260 765 750 1 274 1 349 1 349 1 845 2 529 2 646 36.8
Total payments and estimates 137 530 126 600 117 796 132 028 134 256 134 256 138 935 138 801 145 098 3.5

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