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An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister for agriculture.
Agriculture dominates the Free State landscape, with cultivated land covering 32,000 square kilometres, and natural veld and grazing a further 87,000 square kilometres of the province. It is also South Africa's leader in the production of biofuels, or fuel from agricultural crops, with a number of ethanol plants under construction in the grain ...
In 1990 the ministry was established as Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development. In 1991 the portfolio of fisheries was split off, and a separate Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources was created. [ 1 ]
After final retirement from the Department of Agriculture, she had bought a property in Fauresmith and stayed there. [5] Poor health eventually forced her to enter a home for the aged in Bloemfontein, where she lived last two years of her life. [2] In 1968, the farming community of Fauresmith district honored Henrici with an illuminated address ...
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) is one of the departments of the South African government. It is responsible for protecting, conserving and improving the South African environment and natural resources .
The department has responsibility for agriculture, food safety, food security, land reform, topographic mapping, cadastral survey, the Deeds Offices, and spatial planning. The political head of the department is the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development , who is assisted by two deputy ministers. [ 1 ]
The department fell under the responsibility of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In 2010 the minister was Senzeni Zokwana. In the 2014 national budget, the department received an appropriation of R6,178 billion rand, [2] and had 5,924 employees as of 2010. [3] In June 2019 government departments were reconfigured.
Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs may refer to one of the following: Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs , a former ministerial position in the Cabinet of South Africa Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (South Africa) , a South African government department formerly called the Department of Agriculture