🇧🇼 Botswana
Current and comprehensive farming, agribusiness, market and development news in Botswana.
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Southern Africa
FNB Botswana ramps up efforts to support the agriculture sector
FNB Botswana is ramping up efforts to assist farmers and agribusinesses with financial solutions tailored to the sector’s needs. Agriculture…
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Politics
Botswana defends elephant hunts, denies blow to tourism industry
Botswana’s decision to reintroduce elephant hunting was necessary to protect its people and environment, and hasn’t adversely affected the $2…
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Game & Wildlife
Botswana raises alarm over unprecedented surge in rhino poaching
Botswana raised the alarm over a “deeply worrying” surge in rhinoceros poaching after two of the animals were killed in…
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Projects
Agro project to cut Botswana’s imports
An agro-infrastructure project that will give Botswana’s farmers access to a road network, a drainage system, and water control is…
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Livestock
Botswana has huge potential in beef sector
There is real opportunity to develop the beef sector and grow foreign exchange revenues accruing from the sector, says permanent…
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Game & Wildlife
Elephant Conservation conflict reflects postcolonial periphery-centre dynamics
A joint research by Israel Blackie, a University of Botswana PHD candidate and Jan Sowa from the Committee of Cultural…
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Game & Wildlife
Elephant hunting in Botswana to be selective, controlled – Prof Mbaiwa
Batswana should speak in one voice to defend the decision to lift the elephant hunting ban, a move which was…
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Livestock
Livestock decline worries Botswana government
Government is concerned by the declining population of livestock, which has a deleterious effect on beef exports to the European…
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