The key challenges include the following:
- High cost of investment/finance.
- Inadequate physical infrastructure to support the sector
- Poor farming techniques
- Limited access to quality farm inputs
- Too much relying on rain;
- Lack of marketing data and information
- Inadequate production and post harvest technologies.
- Inadequate disease control facilities.
- Lack of awareness by farmers on better farming methods
- Low incomes of farmers to purchase the necessary farm inputs
- Limited funding by government and private sector to agricultural sector
- Low production and productivity resulting in low revenue
- Low value addition to agricultural produce
- Limited market access due to inadequate marketing and agro processing facilities
- Weak implementation of agricultural laws and policies
- Limited public agricultural institutions
- Inadequate storage and high post harvest losses
- Land limitation in some areas
- The country has not yet been zoned on the basis of different agricultural crops.