UN encourages Africa to support small scale producers
Zimbabwe's representative to the United Nations, Mr Frederick Shava, who is also President of the UN Economic and Social Council, challenged African governments to seriously consider capacitating the sector and to facilitate value addition and other benefits.
"Because all our nations have economies that are 70 percent agro-based, we have to discuss agro-based industries to address the agro-industrialisation of the economies," he said.
Meanwhile, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion, Dr Desire Sibanda, said now was the time for Africa to start exporting processed agro products.
"Agribusiness and agro-industries are key to the attainment of SDGs hence we need to come up with right policies and incentives as well as investment for the growth of domestic enterprises and improvements in the overall investment climate to achieve these goals," he said.
source: chronicle.co.zw
