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The establishment of relevant public/private sector partnerships is vital for the development and promotion of various enterprises. These partnerships are needed to provide the public sector push and the private sector pull to especially the small-scale subsistence farmers, towards market orientation and commercialisation of agricultural production.

Public/private sector partnerships allow for establishment of out-grower schemes around nucleus production entities of agricultural commodities. Out-growers’ schemes, with farmers around nucleus farms or agro-processing facilities, and essential services is one way of attaining production of sustainable volumes of quality and sustainable quantities of product to exploit the market opportunity, and for farmers to become effective players in the market.

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