Administration
Purpose
To provide strategic leadership, management and support services to the department.
Sub-programmes
Management
Financial Services
Risk Management
Purposes of Sub-programmes
Management
To provide strategic leadership and governance.
Financial Services
To ensure prudent financial management
Risk Management
To ensure all risks are managed/mitigated and identify new risks to the department
Agricultural Production, Health, Food Safety, Natural Resources and Disaster Management
Purpose
To oversee livestock production, game farming, animal and plant health, natural resources and disaster management.
Sub-programmes
Plant Production and Health
Animal Production and Health
Inspection and Quarantine Services
Natural Resources and Disaster Management
Purposes of Sub-programmes
Plant Production and Health
To develop policies and standards to support plant production and plant health.
Animal Production and Health
To promote livestock productions, game farming and animal health.
Inspection and Quarantine Services
To ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks for food safety.
Natural Resources and Disaster Management
To facilitate the development of infrastructure and the sustainable use of natural resources and integrate, coordinate and implement disaster management policies and frameworks with special emphasis on mitigation of disasters in rural and agricultural areas.
Food Security, Land Reform and Restitution
Purpose
To acquire and distribute land, promote food security and agrarian reform programmes.
Sub-programmes
Food Security
Land Tenure Reform
Land Acquisition and Redistribution .
Purposes of Sub-programmes
Food Security
To provide a national framework to promote sustainable household food security.
Land Tenure Reform
To develop land tenure policies, programmes and procedures.
Land Acquisition and Redistribution
To provide land acquisition and strategic institutional partnerships.
Rural Development
Purpose
To initiate, facilitate, coordinate and act as a catalyst for the implementation of a comprehensive rural development programme leading to sustainable and vibrant rural communities.
Sub-programmes
National Rural Youth Service Corps (NARYSEC)
Rural Social Infrastructure Coordination
Technology Research and Coordination
Purposes of Sub-programmes
National Rural Youth Service Corps (NARYSEC)
To provide social organisation, youth development and economic upliftment.
Rural Social Infrastructure Coordination
To co-ordinate infrastructure development in rural areas.
Technology Research and Coordination
To co-ordinate the provision of innovative and appropriate technologies in rural areas.
Economic Development, Trade and Marketing
Purpose
To promote economic development, trade and market access for agriculture products; and forester international relations for the sector.
Sub-programmes
International Relations and Trade
Cooperatives and Development
Agro-processing, Marketing and Industrial Development
Purposes of Sub-programmes
International Relations and Trade
To promote, coordinate and support international relations and trade through the development and implementation appropriate policies and programmes
Cooperatives and Development
To facilitate and support the implementation of programmes and initiatives that promote cooperatives to participate in economic development.
Agro-processing, Marketing and Industrial Development
To ensure the transformation of primary product commodities into value added products, and ensure domestic and international market access.
Land Administration
Purpose
To provide geospatial information, cadastral surveys, deeds registration and spatial planning, as well as technical services in support of sustainable land development.
Sub-programmes
National Geomatics Management Services
Spatial Planning and Land Use Management
Registration of Deeds Trading Account
South African Council of planners
South African Geomatics Council
Purposes of Sub-programmes
National Geomatics Management Services
Responsible for examining and providing all surveys of land and real rights intended to be registered in the deeds office; maintaining records; compiling, maintaining and revising maps of property boundaries; providing cadastral advisory services to other government institutions; promoting and controlling all matters related to geodetic and topographical surveying; establishing and maintaining a network of national geo-referencing stations; facilitating state surveys related to land reform; and providing cadastral and geospatial information services, including South African spatial data infrastructure.