ActionSA notes with utter repugnance the treatment levelled at the qualified Agricultural Practitioners by the uncaring Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. Last year, the Department of Agriculture hired Assistant Agricultural Practitioners (AAP) under the disguise that they will be permanently absorbed in due course. They were promised a three-year contract at first but the Department renege from its commitment instead they gave them a recuring three months contract until their contracts were terminated indefinitely.