Other challenges relate to the industry commitment at many levels to ensure compliance with international best practice and commercial guidelines, for instance GlobalGAP. This includes compliance with quality and safety standards, traceability, domestic legislation, and social and ethical conduct.
As compliance has a technical and financial impact on emerging farmers, a challenge facing the industry is the rendering of support and assistance to ensure their export readiness and compliance with the strict requirements. Unfortunately compliance costs are very high and it seems that producers have not yet received tangible benefits for compliance in the form of a premium on their products.