Administration – To provide strategic leadership, management and support services to AgriSETA. To improve the service delivery of public institutions in the agricultural sector.

Skills Planning – To ensure that HRD information is available and contribute to skills development planning. This programme aims to address the challenges of lack of institutional mechanisms that provide credible information and analysis of the supply and demand for skills, thus informing the skills planning and delivery processes. It also looks at the gap in terms of the capacity to conduct and coordinate professional research, and the dissemination of information.

Learning programmes and projects – To, through skills development impact on the productivity and profitability of the agricultural sector and to contribute to food security, vibrant entrepreneurship and self-reliance especially for rural economies.

Quality Assurance – To ensure that there are sufficient, high quality skills development institutions serving the agricultural sector