Question NW2876 to the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
26 October 2023 - NW2876
Matiase, Mr NS to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Whether, she has found that the success of her department to bring to production 365 000 hectares of land in the former homelands is attributable to its effective implementation of the Spatial Land Use Management Act, Act 16 of 2013, to identify underutilised land in the former homelands; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the details of (a) all underutilised land in the former homelands identified through the Spatial Land Use Management Act, Act 16 of 2013 and (b) the 365 000 hectares that have been brought under production through the Spatial Land Use Management Act, Act 16 of 2013?
Reply:
The success of bringing any number of hectares into production cannot be attributed to effective implementation of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act No. 16 of 2013. In the Budget and Policy Speech on 9 May 2023, it was indicated that the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) working with the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) concluded a spatial analysis and did economic projections to identify the possible impact of bringing agricultural land in traditional areas into production.
(a),(b) Falls away