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NC Agriculture Department lays out its 2021/22 budget

───   05:00 Thu, 17 Jun 2021

NC Agriculture Department lays out its 2021/22 budget | News Article
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Plans, programmes and methods have been developed with the hope of facilitating the sustainable improvement of the Northern Cape’s agriculture sector.

MEC for Land Reform, Agriculture and Nature Conversation and Environmental Affairs, Mase Manopole, outlined the department’s budget for the 2021/22 financial year.

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Manopole says that the department is consistently collaborating with entities to enhance the Agricultural development of the province. She adds that the department has more than seven programmes in place that will contribute to the sustainability of the provinces agricultural sector.

One of the most important programmes relates to the involvement of the youth in the agricultural sector. To support this, she says: “As our provincial slogan of building a modern, growing, and successful province is proceeding. We cannot leave our young people behind. My vision is to see a transforming and appealing agricultural and environmental department which will be able to lure more young people in the sector.”

Furthermore, a budget of R676,821 million has been allocated to the facilitation of all the programmes.

“Our province and the country has been experiencing difficulties brought by the outbreak of the coronavirus. The biggest challenge is that the entire world has been affected at the same time. This pandemic has affected the economy in many ways. Various economic sectors have been affected in different ways. The agricultural sector, like other sectors, has been negatively affected by the pandemic,” says Manopole.

She goes on to say that the budget that was presented makes no provision for wage increases with regards to the general salary adjustments for inflation.

She concludes by saying that within these programmes many subprogrammes will be implemented so as to simplify them and to ensure that they are sustained throughout the year.



OFM News/Lee Simmons

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