MOLEPOLOLE, Botswana, Feb 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maipato Kesebang normally grows maize, jugo beans and sweet reed on her 20-hectare plot of land northwest of Gaborone, Botswana's capital.

Molepolole — Horticultural farmers' dream of having a market for their produce has been crushed. Their hopes were dashed following Botswana horticultural market's uncertain future. The market was the ...

Some farmers in Kweneng District have suffered losses following a drop in temperatures recently. The cold weather proved to be a challenge, as tomatoes and cabbages could not withstand the low ...

"Increase the prices, then we can do business with you," this is the message that pastoralists in the troubled beef sector have for those who run the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC). Farmers argue that ...

These are tough times for agriculture in southeastern Botswana, the most densely inhabited section of this semi-arid, southern African country. Anaemic rainfall in six of the past 10 years has meant ...

In a bid to boost agro-tourism, the Botswana government is offering wildlife start-up stock to farmers to keep in their ploughing fields. The government says the move will give locals an improved ...

Botswana's president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, says his government will allow farmers to keep small game as a way to encourage locals’ participation in agro-tourism. He added that it is paramount for them ...

Farmers have welcomed lifting the South African vegetable export ban to Botswana but say it will take time for the countries to benefit from the deal. TLU SA general manager Bennie Van Zyl’s reaction ...

The Botswana Agricultural Union (BAU) on Wednesday urged Zimbabwean farmers who have been ordered off their land by President Robert Mugabe to come to neighbouring Botswana. BAU chief executive ...

LOCAL rabbit farmers are struggling to meet a 1,5 tonnes order from Botswana for meat owing to their failure to upscale their activities, NewsDay Farming can reveal. In August, local lobby group, ...

MOLEPOLOLE, Botswana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maipato Kesebang normally grows maize, jugo beans and sweet reed on her 20-hectare plot of land northwest of Gaborone, Botswana's capital. But last ...