The Agricultural Marketing Board was established in 1964 to implement food security strategies as well as to expand the local production of strategic crops like onions, potatoes and garlic and is a self-financed parastatal body operating under the aegis of the Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security. The Agricultural Marketing Board is vested with wide powers in matters relating to the production, storage, import, export and sale of a number of commodities declared as “Controlled Products” by law.