He said government would focus on diversifying the country's export base from primary commodities towards value addition that were less vulnerable to international price volatilities.
Through agro-processing, agricultural commodities can be transformed into higher-value products which can then be branded and marketed at higher prices for increased revenues.
Primary commodities include plastic resins, gas turbines, wind turbines, food products, forest products, and chemicals with the railroad accumulating about 5,500 annual carloads in 2008.
