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 ...

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.

While cattle farmers in Botswana have welcomed the government's decision to reduce foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) slaughter ...

Maun — The department of crops under the Ministry of Agriculture has encouraged farmers around the country to pull up their socks to produce enough food for their households and to sell. Speaking in ...

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 ...

Cattle farmers in Botswana, one of Africa’s top beef exporters to the European Union, have welcomed renewed beef exports to Europe. The move follows a two-month ban that followed an outbreak of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...