Description: The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) has embarked on a process to identify and demarcate high value agricultural areas suitable for continued long-term agricultural production purposes given the combination of the natural agricultural resource’s capability and suitability. These demarcated areas are called the Protected Agricultural Areas (PAAs) and will be gazetted under PDALB, with supporting procedures and processes as well as permitted, conditional and non-permitted land uses for each of the PAAs. From a national perspective the PAAs focus is on the identification and demarcation of areas having a high capability and potential for cultivation that has the potential to contribute significantly towards national food security, whilst on a provincial level, areas having the production capability to meaningfully contribute to economic growth and job creation (best available land). The “Protected Agricultural Areas” is defined as a:“cartographic delineated area of agricultural land, preserved for purposes of ensuring high value agricultural land is protected against non- agricultural land uses in order to promote long-term agricultural production and food security”.PAAs are therefore regarded as large, relative homogeneous portions of high value agricultural land that has the potential to sustainably, in the long-term, contribute significantly to the production of food.Please see metadata document supplied by DALRRD https://giswebmaps1.kzncogta.gov.za/portal/sharing/rest/content/items/aa3d056b9a6343319129d2f7c7a06234/data
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