The country needs a disaggregated agricultural development plan across all sub-sectors to ensure enhanced private sector participation.
United Nations specialised agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) agro-food systems investments and policy support specialist, Roy Machoko said Zimbabwe was failing to attract meaningful investment in various economic sectors due to lack of blueprints that guarantee returns for investors.
The nation targets to attain a US$8 billion agricultural economy by year 2025.
Machoko, who was speaking at the Zimbabwe Agriculture Investment Plan (ZAIP) 2 consultative workshop held in Chinhoyi last week, said the first cycle of the envisaged government plan did not yield desired results.
Machoko said: “ZAIP 1 which ran from 2017 and expires this year failed to make a meaningful impact in regards the agricultural and food systems transformation agenda….