Strategic Plan for the Food Crop and Livestock Sectors 2024-2030

This Strategic Plan, covering the period 2024-2030, represents the Mauritius' commitment to secure its food supply mostly by an indirect use of its agricultural system and an increased use of crop other than the sugar cane. Therefore, the mission of the Strategic Plan is: to enable and facilitate the advancement of agriculture and the agribusiness sector for improved food security and safety in line with the requirements for sustainable agriculture development. The vision aims at building a vibrant non-sugar agribusiness sector that utilises natural resources sustainably, contributes significantly to national food security and safety, empowers producers to higher productivity gains and enhances the welfare of the farming community. The overall goal of this Strategic Plan is to raise the national food security level through the increasing production of food crop under open field farming and under protected culture, including potatoes and other vegetables, and meat production. The Strategic Plan identifies the following six objectives: 1) fostering sustainable and resilient food security in the country; 2) developing sustainable value chains in Mauritius; 3) facilitating a fair and socially responsible contract farming system in Mauritius; 4) increasing technology innovations for food security in Mauritius; 5) developing farm diversification; 6) strengthening climate change adaptation measures in agriculture.
This Strategic Plan is developed around three pillars: 1) boosting production for resilient food security which would require upgrading of production infrastructures, improving access to inputs (planting materials and feed) and research and development; 2) promoting sustainable and resilient production with interventions aimed at improving sustainable agricultural practices, integrated pest and disease management, promotion of bio farming and developing smart and innovative production systems; 3) strengthening entrepreneurship and agro-processing, with proposed activities, development of capacity building and professionalisation of operators and institutions. Concerning food crop cluster analysis, the Strategic Plan concerns: potatoes, onions, garlic, cucurbits, crucifers, legumes and pulses, starchy crops, tomatoes and fruits. Concerning livestock cluster analysis, the Strategic Plan focuses on: poultry, cattle, swine, sheep and goats, deer and apiculture.