• Government will rely on commercial farmers to meet this demand.• Farmers must come on board and take advantage of this opportunity.• Initiatives such as
• Increasing cotton yields will create more opportunities in the cotton value chain.• Development of the cotton value chain has potential to create additional employment.•
• More than 150, 000 small scale farmers will directly benefit and transition to greener and more sustainable Agri-food systems by 2025.• Government attaches great
• It is high time that farmers start looking at farming differently.• They should consider it as a business.• Farmers must shift from subsistence farming