Question NW2919 to the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
08 December 2020 - NW2919
Masipa, Mr NP to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
What (a) total amount of drought relief funding support was provided by her department to affected farmers from 1 January 2018 up to the latest specified date for which information is available, (b) amount of the total funding was allocated for (i) direct support in the form of feed and (ii) other ancillaries such as drought awareness and other relief measures and (c) are the details of the service providers that were awarded contracts related to the specified drought relief support?
Reply:
Below are the details of the allocations made towards drought relief since 2018/19 to date. These allocations do not include those that were allocated by provinces through equitable share.
Allocations for 2018/19
In the 2018/19 the Department facilitated the submission of funding requests from provinces after the Minister of Finance announced the availability of provisional allocation for drought interventions and other disasters. Eight provinces (excluding Gauteng) submitted their funding requests which were consolidated and submitted to National Treasury. Six of the eight requests were approved namely, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and Free State. The implementation of the drought relief is done by the provinces.
|
PROVINCE |
a) AMOUNT |
b) HOW IT WAS USED |
|
Eastern Cape |
R20 000 000 |
Feed for livestock. |
|
Free State |
R13 500 000 |
Desilting of dams and development of boreholes. |
|
Northern Cape |
R43 000 000 (last tranche of R127m mentioned above) |
Feed for livestock. |
|
Limpopo |
R10 000 000 |
Desilting of dams, boreholes drilling and equipping as well as fodder for livestock. |
|
Mpumalanga |
R10 000 000 |
Desilting of dams, boreholes drilling and equipping as well as fodder for livestock. |
|
Western Cape |
R170 000 000 |
Feed for livestock. |
|
Total Amount |
R265 000 000.00 |
The Department also received funding through the Land Care programme in the same year (2018/19). Below are the details of the outputs achieved by National and Provincial Departments on the allocated budget and also the details of the service providers that were awarded contracts to the specified drought relief support at national level.
|
IMPLEMENTING PARTNER |
(a) BUDGET ALLOCATION |
(b) ACTIVITY OUTPUTS IN QUANTITY |
(c)LIST OF SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR DROUGHT RELIEF ONLY AT NATIONAL LEVEL |
|
1. Eastern Cape |
R 35 950 000 |
2693 Hectares (Ha) of alien invasive plant control, 4 water sources protected, 915 water tanks/troughs, 9 no-till planters, 9 boom sprayers, 6 damdesilted, 1 borehole drilled and 698 work opportunities created. |
N/A |
|
2. Limpopo |
R35 200 000 |
2 boreholes drilled, 42.8 km fence erected, 1420 Ha of weeds/invasive plants controlled, 30 Ha under conservation agriculture, shade nets & irrigation to two farmers, 29 gabions constructed, 10.5 km fire belt constructed, 15000 seedlings of vetiver species and 2010 work opportunities created. |
N/A |
|
3. KwaZulu Natal |
R9 850 000 |
4118 Hectares, 11 Awareness campaigns, 2 Information days to promote conservation agriculture and 367 work opportunities created. |
N/A |
|
4. Mpumalanga |
R 10 900 000 |
123.57 km fence erected, 349 work opportunities created, 4306 Ha controlled, 3.8 firebreaks constructed, 9Ha conservation agriculture (CA) and 8 farmers day on CA conducted. |
N/A |
|
5. Northern Cape |
R 35 000 000 |
41 boreholes drilled, 15 stock water system constructed, 800Ha re-seeded, 2 awareness campaigns, 4 capacity building exercise conducted,30 gabion constructed, 223 km fence erected, 6093Ha cleared and 538 work opportunities created. |
N/A |
|
6. North West |
R 31 200 000 |
18 boreholes drilled, 7 boreholes sighted, 416 Ha of bush encroachment cleared, 1 awareness campaign held, 4 tunnels constructed, 2 no-till planters procured, 1 windmill repaired, 1 TLB procured, 1 pivot system, 1 school vegetable garden established and 427 work opportunities created. |
N/A |
|
7. Western Cape |
R 41 900 000 |
2297 Ha alien plants controlled, 202 km fence erected, 67km firebreaks constructed, 24 km of stock watering system constructed and 14 boreholes drilled. |
N/A |
|
8. National |
R100 000 000 |
200 No till implements, 315 water tanks, 105 km Fire breaks, 25000 Moringaoleifera seedlings, 35000 Portulacariaafra seedlings, 1400 Sesbaniasesbans var nubica seedlings, 3500 kg of seeds (700 kg each of Cajanuscajans, Lablabpurpureus, Eragrotis Tef, and Perennial Sorghum), over 500 trainees capacitated on agricultural skills, 2 drone system and soil survey tools for monitoring of natural resources and herbicides for alien control to recharge water and grazing capacity. |
|
Allocations 2019/20 (CASP Allocation)
The funds below were allocated to following provinces following reprioritised Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP) funds.
|
PROVINCE |
|
|
|
Mpumalanga |
R8 000 000 |
Fodder for livestock; support for fodder bank; dam scooping |
|
Limpopo |
R9 000 000 |
Boreholes and desilting of dams in communal farms |
|
Northern Cape |
R34 000 000 |
Fodder for livestock; expansion of fodder bank; planting of maize and Lucerne along the Orange River. |
|
Total Amount |
R51 000 000.00 |
Allocations for 2020/21
The following projects are still in progress as the funds were transferred in July 2020. These funds were acquired through the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) as part of the provincial disaster grant following the declaration of the drought as a national state of disaster in February 2020.
|
Provinces |
|
|
|
Eastern Cape |
R35 000 000 |
Borehole development and fodder production |
|
KwaZulu-Natal |
R4 000 000 |
Dam rehabilitation, re-scooping silted dams |
|
Limpopo |
R18 640 000 |
Drilling and equipping of boreholes, construction of reservoirs. |
|
Mpumalanga |
R12 160 000 |
Fodder bank support, drilling and equipping of boreholes, provision of animal feed. |
|
Northern Cape |
R35 689 000 |
Fodder provision; extension of fodder bank irrigation, clearing of prosopis, transportation of fodder to all districts. |
|
North West |
R8 000 000 |
Equipping of boreholes. |
|
Western Cape |
R25 000 000 |
Provision of fodder. |
|
TOTAL Amount |
R138 489 000 |
(b) (ii) Below are the details of the allocations made towards other ancillaries such as drought awareness and other relief measuressince 2018/20 to date. These allocations do not include those that were allocated by provinces through their provincial allocations.
Awareness on disaster risks reduction and drought
|
Type of awareness |
Period |
Total cost |
|
Weather and climate capacity building in two provinces |
March 2019 |
R 55 410.00 |
|
Uptake of early warning information in three provinces |
March 2018, March 2019, November 2019 |
R 35 800.00 |
|
Roving seminars on weather and climate |
February 2018 |
R 12 000.00 |
|
Total |
R 103 210.00 |