BY JOHN HOUANIHAU

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) launched its Corporate Plan 2025–2028 at the Heritage Park Hotel on Monday this week.

The launch coincided with the World Food Day 2025 celebrations. The theme for World Food Day 2025 is “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future”.

During the launch Director Planning of MAL Danny Lehe spoke on the guiding principles of the corporate plan, the strategic objective and the key actions.

He said the corporate plan is aligned to the policy focusing on two pillars with the vision and mission to enhance the agricultural sector through innovation, partnership and sustainable resource management.

“To make agriculture attractive at all levels and also to strengthen agriculture, economic backbone of the country.

Lehe explained that the ministry has eight core values.

“The eight strategic objectives of the ministry’s corporate plan, 2025 to 2028, one is effective reform and restructuring for operational efficiency. Two, increase agricultural productivity, through crops, livestock and innovation.

“Three, to strengthen food security and nutrition. Four, stimulate economic growth and rural development. Five, to promote sustainable agricultural practices. Six, safeguard agriculture and livestock sector. Seven, strengthen stakeholder engagement and collaboration and eight, enhance monitoring, evaluation and accountability,” he said.

Lehe stressed that there a few key actions that will be implemented for the ministry to achieve these key strategic objectives.

He mentioned that one of these key actions is to modernise the organisational structure, promote advanced technologies and support research and development, strengthen food system, enhance value chain and encourage agribusiness development, adopt climate resilience practices, strengthen partnership and improve monitoring and transparency.

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