Strategic objectives of Agri parks •Establish Agri-Parks in all of South Africa’s District Municipalities that will kick start the Rural Economic Transformation for these rural regions; 

Promote growth of the smallholder sector by contrbuting to the 300 000 new small-scale producers, as well as to the 145 000 new jobs in agro-processing by the year 2020 (as set out in the NGP);

Promote the skills of and support to small-holder farmers through the provision of capacity building, mentorship, farm infrastructure, extension services, production inputs and mechanization inputs;

Strengthen existing and create new partnerships within all three spheres of government, the private sector and civil society to develop critical economic infrastructure such as roads, energy, water, ICT and transportation/logistics corridors that support the agri-park value chain;

Enable producer ownership of the majority of Agri-Parks equity (70%), with the state and commercial interests holding minority shares (30%);

Allow smallholder producers to take full control of Agri-Parks by steadily decreasing state support over a period of ten years;

Bring under-utilized land (especially in Communal Areas Land and land reform farms) into full production over the next three years, and expand irrigated agriculture; and

Contribute to achievement of the NDP’s “inclusive rural economy” and target of 1 million jobs created in agriculture sector through creating higher demand for raw agricultural produce, primary and ancillary inputs, as well as generating increased downstream economic activities in the sector.