• Increase agricultural productivity and sustainability through training, research and development. • Extend systems and irrigation works that eliminate dependence on rain-fed agriculture. • Make farm credit to farmers accessible, affordable and timely. • Reorganise production. • Explore the stock exchange to raise long-term capital for funding agriculture. • Facilitate private-sector participation in agriculture, encourage foreign investment in agriculture, improve the flow of information between buyers and sellers (particularly information about prices), and create an environment for large numbers of buyers and sellers to participate in the market. • Develop clear subsector policies for producing food crops, livestock, fish, cash and export crops, industrial crops, agricultural by-products, forest products and wildlife. • Clarify the roles and responsibilities of the federal government, state governments, local governments, agricultural institutions, the private sector and individual farmers in agricultural development. • Pursue an aggressive development programme for rural roads, rural electrification and rural water supply. • Revive agricultural shows and festivals. • Pay attention to the serious climate change predictions associated with unsustainable agricultural practices in the whole country, and to the need for ecological restitution, reforestation and planned farming. • Develop an agricultural support programme in the civil service to encourage civil servants to become interested in farming and to adopt it as an occupation after they leave the service. rural settlement patterns to favour agricultural Industry 166 542. The CRM gathered, from its interactions with stakeholders, that the country had a strategic framework for industrial development for many years. The framework had been formulated around a set of priorities that included: agro-allied industries; petrochemical and chemical industries; diversified textile industries; an integrated iron and steel industry; and transport vehicle and allied industries assembly and manufacture for export. Lack of implementation was, however, seen to be the major weakness. 543. Currently, industrial policy concentrates on promoting access to funding, facilitating regional balance, providing tax relief, and lowering duties