Two consultants were commissioned by TIPS to deliver this report to the Department of Trade
and Industry (the dti). One consultant was contracted to work for 18 days in September 2015,
the other for 12 days in the same month. The requirement was to deliver a report that
described the insights that were discovered through an interviewing and background research
process. The scope of the interviewing process may be assessed by examining the List of
Interviews; the breadth of background research is evident in the References.
A second requirement was to provide “recommendations for areas for the dti to intervene to
enhance the identified industries in the agro-processing sector as well as details of the nature
of the interventions”.
These recommendations focus on tapping the potential of agro-industries to generate both
wage employment and export revenues. They are provided in Chapter 6 of this report.