Objective 1: Adapt and develop appropriate technologies that enhance productivity and quality that significantly contribute to:

• Food security
• Export
• Raw material for industries and import
• Substitution
• Supplementary income generation and
• Sustainable production system

Objective 2: Demonstrate, popularize and catalyze, scale-up and scale-out improved technologies

• Effective partnership with stakeholders,
• Research-extension-farmer linkages,
• Farmers Training Centers (FTCs), exporters, agro-processers, administrators, foreign buyers, CGIAR Centers, NGOs, others

Objective 3: Strengthen natural resources

• Management for sustainable production
• Soil fertility management
• Combating soil acidity/salinity problems
• Integrated soil and water conservation
• Small scale irrigation management
• Agro-forestry

Objective 4: Develop and promote commercialization of under-utilized and/or nontraditional resources

• Vegetables and fruits
• Natural products
• Aromatics

Objective 5: Strengthen coordination and promote partnerships

• Strengthen research centers based on their focused mission
• Play a leading role in agricultural policy development
• Form strategic alliance with sub-regional and international organizations

Objective 6: Build capacity for integrated agricultural research for development

• Demand-driven, merit-based resource development and utilization
• Institutional competency and associated infrastructure building
• Human resource competency