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

Payments for capital assets increased from R3.992 million in 2019/20 to a revised estimate of estimate of
R4.426 million in 2022/23 attributable to the funds reprioritised for the gas chromatography which is an analytical
technique machine for research purposes. In 2023/24, the budget increases substantially by 31.8 percent or
R5.832 million due to the provision made for infrastructure relating to aquaculture development project as well
as procurement of equipment for laboratories, and livestock used for research purposes.

8.5.1 Service Delivery Measures
Table 25: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P5: Research and Technology
Development Services
Estimated Medium-term estimates
performance
Programme performance measures 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26

Number of research projects implemented to improve agricultural production 60 38 38 38
Number of scientific papers published. 5 6 7 7

Number of research presentations made at peer review events 22 25 25 25
Number of research presentations made at technology transfer events 24 25 25 25
Number of new technologies developed for the small holder producers 4 4 4 4
Number of research infrastructure managed 7 7 7 7
Research and development will provide market intelligence within the broader sector. It is envisaged that
all partners will share their market information in a network of government, industry, academia farmer
organisations and the NGO sector with the view of promoting innovation. Adaptive research conducted will
strengthen knowledge capacity in the farming community.

8.6 Programme 6: Agricultural Economics Services

Objectives: To provide timely and relevant agricultural economic services to the sector in support of sustainable
agricultural and agri-business development to increase economic growth. The programme has 3 sub-
programmes, namely:
x Production Economics and Marketing Support: To provide production economics and marketing
services to agri-businesses
x Agro-Processing Support: To facilitate agro-processing initiatives to ensure participation in the
value chain.
x Macro-Economics Support: To provide economic and statistical information on the performance of
the agricultural sector in order to inform planning and decision making.

Table 26: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P6 – Agricultural Economics
Services

Main Adjusted
Outcome Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change
appropriation appropriation
R thousand 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 from 2022/23
1. Production Economics & Marketing Support 3 226 2 859 28 697 29 763 30 816 19 992 25 907 27 068 28 156 29.6
2. Agro-Processing Support – – – – – – – – –
3. Macroeconomics Support 30 878 30 899 3 171 5 792 4 271 15 095 10 329 10 799 11 292 (31.6)
Total payments and estimates 34 104 33 758 31 868 35 555 35 087 35 087 36 236 37 867 39 448 3.3

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