Strategic issues of CAFCS are the following.
- Staff capacity building;
- Enhancing under and postgraduate programs;
- Quality education and relevance;
- Problem solving and quality scientific research, demand driven community service and technology transfer works;
- Practical teaching-learning process via laboratories, demonstrations, tissue culture and field visits;
- Decentralization;
- Improving internal revenue via fund raising, project development, continuous education and demonstration works;
- Greenery and learning watershed development;
- Agricultural/Farm projects;
- Improving soil acidity problems and soil erosion;
- Partnership and linkages;
- Communication and staff motivation via competitive awards; and
- Good governance.