Department Of Agriculture Forestry And Fisheries Western Cape Contact Details
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries aims to lead and support sustainable agriculture and promote rural development through:
- ensuring access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
- eliminating skewed participation and inequity in the agriculture
- maximising growth, employment and income in agriculture
- enhancing the sustainable management of natural agricultural resources and ecological systems
- ensuring effective and efficient governance
- ensuring knowledge and information management.
Some of the services provided by the Department are:
- education and training, including bursaries
- controlling the formation, registration and supervision of cooperatives
- releasing crop estimates
- providing statistical information
- quality control through standardising norms and distributing quality control information
- promoting and regulating the quality and health of agricultural products through the National Plant Protection Organisation
- representing South Africa’s agricultural interests internationally
- genetic resources regulation, registration and evaluation
- providing veterinary services
- registration of agricultural remedies, pesticides, animal feeds and pet food, fertilizers, plant sterilisation units, animal medicines, pest control operators
- offering inspection services.
Department Of Agriculture Forestry And Fisheries Western Cape Contact Details
Department of Agriculture – Western Cape
Acting Head of Communication: Ms Giselle Terblanche
Private Bag X1, Elsenburg, 7607
Main Building, Elsenburg, Muldersvlei Road
GPS Co-ordinates: 33.845259 S 18.834722 E
Fax: +27 21 808 7605
Tel: +27 21 808 5196
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.elsenburg.com
Twitter: @WCGovAgri