• Encourage market research through the use of ICTs to improve access to established foreign markets and to break into new markets for both traditional and non-traditional exports • Utilize ICTs to link farmers and farmer groups to resources and services that they need to improve their livelihoods through agricultural productivity, profitability and food security • Deliver real-time information and customized knowledge to improve farmers’ decision making ability to align farm output with market demands, and to improve productivity • Modernize rural technologies for more efficient agricultural production and processing • Establish clear forward and backward linkages between agricultural education (formal and informal), research and development, farming, agro-industry and marketing • Improve research competence and promote the application and transfer of new technologies, such as biotechnology, to support improved agricultural production • Drastically reduce pre-harvest and post-harvest losses in agricultural production, through the development and adaptation of improved technologies, particularly for food storage and preservation • Identify and address land ownership and tenure issues that are retarding agriculture development in the country • Develop and implement suitable irrigation methods and techniques in all agro ecological zones in the country • Promote and support agricultural research as well as cutting-edge agriculture-based R&D targeting the development of a modernize and globally competitive agriculture sector • Develop new agricultural non traditional export products and strengthen the production and value addition to existing ones in order to boost the rural economy • Strengthen research-extension-farmer linkages to ensure that technologies developed are appropriate to the needs of farmers • Promote the development of food preservation and processing, through participatory technology development • Encourage the production of cash crops such as cashew and replanting of cocoa in the traditional cocoa growing areas with high yielding and diseases resistant planting material and increasing fertility of soils • Strengthen extension services to farmers through training and motivation of extension service providers • Encourage mechanized and modernized large-scale plantations and small holders and out-growers in targeted raw materials on commercial farming bases • Promote the creation of agriculture export production villages 55