Through:

• Facilitating market driven agricultural intensification and diversification by assisting farmers to become more Competitive and able to take advantage of emerging economic opportunities
• Improving service delivery, farmers’ organizations and market linkages, supported by expansion of essential rural infrastructure

By addressing:
• Lack of capital in farm and rural communities for productivity enhancement investments.
• Inadequate Market-linked technology transfer
• Absence of basic producer organizations linked to markets
• Low productivity livestock resources
• Poor rural road network limiting market access and constraining diversification away from rice to high value   

   perishable crops.