Farai Mabeza, Senior Staff Writer 
AGRICULTURE minister Anxious Masuka says the government is reviewing one of its major blueprints, the Agricultural and Food Systems Transformation Strategy (AFSTS) after achieving the envisaged US$8,2 billion target two years ahead of schedule.
The AFSTS was launched in 2020 and sought to reach the targeted economy size by 2025, but according to the Agriculture ministry, this has already been achieved.
“We need to consolidate and then accelerate the gains realised thus far, and we are reviewing the AFSTS. We have repackaged Rural Development 8.0 and contextualised this in the agriculture-industrialisation-development nexus.
“We have done a lot, but much more needs to be done. Consequently, all our AFSTS pillars are currently being reviewed. We aim to achieve food, feed, fibre and oil seeds security in the 2023-24 season, for example, after which we shall pursue bio-fuels security, then increase exports, having built strategic food and feed reserves,” Masuka told The Financial Gazette this week.
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