1.   To establish a working exchange to facilitate the rapid and transparent transfer of agricultural commodities.

2.    To provide a credible, certified warehouse receipt service which will include regular inspection and certification of storage facilities and the maintenance of a warehouse receipt registry to allow the transparent knowledge of and transfer of receipts between broker members of ZAMACE.

 3. To become the independent standards and grades facility for the industry and facilitator of an arbitration process for disagreements within the system.

4.   To have broad representation of brokers, traders, farmers and food processors, financial body, included in the governance of the entity.

 5. To have a small management and service provision team to ensure the commodity exchange functions and the affiliated warehouse receipt programme is maintained at a high level of quality and credibility.