-Lack of incentives such as punitive taxes and high cost of innovations.
-Lack of coherence and priority in infrastructure expansion in road expansion and lack of access to electricity and water due to their high costs thus expensive especially in rural areas making agro-processing & irrigated agriculture ineffective.
-Low technical capacity among the actors.
-Climate Change such as increased drought cycles.
-Low funding of the Sector to operationalize the consolidation & harmonization of Sectoral policies and legislation.
-High cost of Credit & Insurance products from the Private Sector as result of high incidences of risks associated with the sector.
-Existence of Latent tariff and non-tariff barriers that has frustrated full economic integration.
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