The Ministry of Agriculture is the highest central body of the government in the agriculture sector coordinating and supervising the activities of all the Agricultural Institutes and Directorates all over the country. The development objectives and functions of the MOA are as follows:

• Serves as a national coordinating and supervising apex body for planning, integration and implementation of agriculture policies and related projects.
• Establish policies, regulations and projects that will ensure sustainable food production
• Achieve self-sufficiency in food grain production through a sustainable growth in rice and wheat production.
• Achieve increasing and profitable production of minor crops and thereby maintain a balanced crop production.
• Increase rural employment through the adoption of modern agricultural practices.
• Achieve low and stable consumer food prices and improve the nutritional status of the population.
• Develop food production that is suitable and sustainable.
• Establish macroeconomics policies that enable farmers to be responsive to domestic and world market opportunities.
• Provide high quality infrastructure and government services that will enable farmers to produce and market products at low cost.
• Rely on competitive markets to supply agricultural inputs at low cost.
• Provide incentives to establish labour intensive production and processing agro-based industries.

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