operationalise the ZLC. The Commissioners for the Land Commission were appointed and the Secretariat is in place. The ZLC has also been decentralised to all the eight agricultural provinces. Challenges 13.6. Limited capacity by housing cooperatives and private land developers to manage and develop allocated stands in and around urban areas has caused illegal urban land planning, development, allocation and use. In addition there are weak land tenure systems which are yet to be enhanced and strengthened to improve bankability of land in the agricultural sector. Responses 13.7. Government is working on improving the land tenure system and establishing an institutional framework to improve land management and accountability systems. 13.8. Government continues to mobilise resources to support the agricultural sector through provision of subsidies and schemes such as the Special Maize Production and Import Substitution Programme (Command Agriculture) to those in A1 and A2 Farms and the Presidential Agricultural Input Scheme to those in communal farming. This has ensured that Four Hundred and Fifty Six Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty (456 730) hectares were put under maize crop during the 2016 farming season, with the objective of producing Two Million Two Hundred and Eighty Three Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty (2 283 650) million metric tonnes against a national requirement of 1.5 million metric tonnes for human consumption. 13.9. Government has instituted a land audit which is being spearheaded by the ZLC. The audit will address issues of accountability and transparency in the administration of Page | 36