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| | **Market-based pricing and free trade** | | **Market-based pricing and free trade** | ||
| | Emphasis on creating unfettered markets by removing government interference. Achieved by: eliminating marketing boards, subsidies, tariffs, and by currency devaluation to make agriculture for export more competitive. | Government actively promotes the agricultural sector but the purpose of agricultural development is to improve the position of women and peasants. Therefore priority policies include: land reform, improvement of access to agricultural inputs and credit for peasants and women, stabilisation of prices. | | | Emphasis on creating unfettered markets by removing government interference. Achieved by: eliminating marketing boards, subsidies, tariffs, and by currency devaluation to make agriculture for export more competitive. | Government actively promotes the agricultural sector but the purpose of agricultural development is to improve the position of women and peasants. Therefore priority policies include: land reform, improvement of access to agricultural inputs and credit for peasants and women, stabilisation of prices. | | ||