To create an enabling environment& Promote overall growth in the fisheries industry and entire value chain to attain self sufficiency in fish production, processing & marketing.

To Improve livestock production/productivity. To strengthen the commercialization of livestock value chains where the State has comparative advantage. To improve livestock productivity and commercialization of selected value chains and strengthen the country’s capacity to respond to an eligible crisis or emergency.

To provide comprehensive animal health care through clinical, ambulatory, and extension services to livestock owners pet owners and wildlife.
To ensure proper monitoring, regulating, compliance and enforcement of veterinary good emergency management practices.

To ensure that all harvested produce in Edo State are inspected and graded before they are fit for both human and animal consumption and for export standards in accordance to defined National and International laws (Bio-food safety, food security and surveillance)

Direct multiplication of seedlings of major economic tree crops, viz; Oil palm, cacao, rubber, cashew, coffee to enhance availability to farmers at cost neutral rates in order to sustainably increase the State’s hectarage under cultivation to these tree crops.
Provision of advisory services to tree crop farmers
To implement the development of new interventions in the Tree Crop sub sector
To organize the interventions of the new stakeholders along the value chain.

To facilitate research on good agriculture practices for the state, establish data bank on agriculture, data collection, processing and analysis of school data in line with the Universal Basic Education. To provide seamless integrated services through the use of I.C.T. for more efficiency and effectiveness of all departmental objectives.