The Government believes the sector has huge potential to help address major national problems, including unemployment and underemployment among youth (MED 2016). However, the investment in agriculture was less than 2 percent of the state budget in 2016. From 2010 to 2013, the size of the labour force rose from 150,900 to 213,200, but the number of subsistence foodstuff producers fell from 206,300 to 178,900 (SEPFOPE and ILO 2016). A characteristic of subsistence farming is low productivity and risk adverse decision-making that is based on household needs more than maximizing output.