date:Mar 03, 2020
s to accelerate economic diversification and job creation. Agriculture is the main source of livelihood in rural areas, but is not sufficiently diversified and relies heavily on imports for vegetables and fodder. In 20082016, only about half of the country's vegetable demand was met by domestic production. Meanwhile, the country's irrigation systems are recognized as having low water productivity and lacking resilience to severe droughts and floods.
According to an article on devdiscourse.com,