The Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) yesterday launched its Strategic Plan 2023-2027 which will serve as a blueprint as they chart their course toward sustainable agriculture, food security and economic prosperity.
The five-year plan, which will provide a roadmap anchored to its mandate as stipulated in the Agriculture and Food Authority Act No. 13 of 2013, is a comprehensive guide to the authority’s vision, goals and the transformative initiatives that will define its journey ahead.
The plan is aligned to the Government’s overall development priorities as reflected in the Fourth Medium Term Plan (MTP IV) and the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), and other regional and global frameworks that seek to revamp the agriculture sector in the country.
Among the areas encompassed in the plan include; addressing production and productivity, finding solutions to declining soil quality, ineffective management strategies, ensuring value addition and marketing systems for scheduled crops, and ensuring compliance with scheduled crops policies, legislations and standards.
The Plan intends to; enhance food security, nutrition and livelihoods, improve scheduled crops value chains into commercially viable enterprises, enhance quality assurance and safety of scheduled crops, produce and products, and enhance organizational effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.
Present during the launch were Agriculture Cabinet Secretary (CS) Dr. Andrew Karanja and his Principal Secretary (PS) Dr. Kiprono Rono among other officials.
By Vostine Ratemo
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