{"id":1286,"date":"2016-02-22T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2016\/02\/22\/farmer-support-and-development\/"},"modified":"2016-02-22T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T06:26:00","slug":"farmer-support-and-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2016\/02\/22\/farmer-support-and-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Support and Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senior Manager is Ms. Lillian Senosi email:lsenosi@ncpg.gov.za<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this programme is to provide support to farmers and rural communities through agricultural communities through agricultural development programmes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is structured into three sub-programmes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farmer Settlement and Development<\/p>\n<p>Extension and Advisory Services<\/p>\n<p>Food Security<\/p>\n<p>Its strategic objectives are to increase agricultural production,increase the number of smallholder farmers benefiting from agricultural programmes and support to 60 000 food insecure households.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The programme will focus on the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provision of agricultural extension and advisory services on various aspects of production and farm management;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Training and capacity buiding of farmers<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of CASP and llima\/Letsema projects<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of the Fetsa Tlala Food production programmes<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of the Orange River Emerging Farmer Settlement &amp; Development Programme<\/li>\n<li>Support to land holding institutions<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of Extention Recovery Programme(ERP)<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of Livestock Improvement Programme<\/li>\n<li>Support to municipalies for the improved management of commonage land and<\/li>\n<li>Support the established and sustainability of Agri-Parks<br \/>\n<!--more-->\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Farmer Settlement and Development<\/strong> facilitates,coordinates and provides support to smallholder and commercial farmers through sustainable agricultural development within agrarian reform initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extension and Advisory Services<\/strong> provides extension and advisory services to farmers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food Security<\/strong> supports advice and coordinates the implementation of pillar one of the Intergarated Food Security Strategy of South Africa(IFSS)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senior Manager is Ms. Lillian Senosi email:lsenosi@ncpg.gov.za The purpose of this programme is to provide support to farmers and rural communities through agricultural communities through agricultural development programmes. It is structured into three sub-programmes: Farmer Settlement and Development Extension and Advisory Services Food Security Its strategic objectives are to increase agricultural production,increase the number<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2016\/02\/22\/farmer-support-and-development\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programmes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}