Southern African Development Community
2.
(f)
encourage research and development of affordable equipment and
farming implements;
(g)
promote labour-saving and gender sensitive technologies and improve
infrastructure in the rural areas;
(h)
accelerate land policy reform initiatives, share experiences of best
practices, and ensure equitable access to land by women.
Agro-lndustrial Development and Processing
(a) encourage value addition to primary agricultural products through agroprocessing, storage and packaging;
(b) promote non-farm agricultural income-generating activities; and
(c)
3.
support development of agro-business entrepreneurship and other skills to
enhance agroprocessing.
Crop and Livestock Pests and Diseases
(a) revitalise national control measures of migratory pests and diseases;
4.
(b)
strengthen surveillance, control, eradication and information sharing on
trans-boundary pests and diseases of plants and animals;
(c)
develop and implement strategies and programmes for prevention and
progressive control to eradicate transboundary animal diseases; and
(d)
develop comprehensive national Tsetse and Trypanosomosis control and
eradication programmes.
Crop, Livestock and Fisheries Production
(a)
increase production of drought tolerant crops such as sorghums, millets,
cassava and other root crops as well as disease resistant crops;
(b)
establish and develop proper storage and preservation facilities at the
household, national and regional levels;
(c)
increase production of short cycle stocks, such as poultry, small ruminants
and piggery; and
(d)
increase aquaculture and marine farming, and improve fish stock
management and fish product quality through pre and post harvest
handling, processing and storage, in accordance with the SADC Protocol
on Fisheries.
Dar-es-Salaam Declantion on Agriculture and Food Security In the SADC Region
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