The Ministry’s recognition of the BNBPU and the role it is to play in the reform of the BMC was articulated at LETSEMA 3 in April 2013 through a joint BMC/MOA/BNBPU resolution: There shall be reform in the beef industry to ensure that the sector is profitable and these reforms should be after a thorough detailed study same as was done with Botswana Telecommunications, not just Monopoly and Act but the whole beef industry.
Producers through BNBPU shall have a say in these reforms. The Ministry has not complied with both of these resolutions. In the first instance, the joint resolution states unequivocally that reforms will only be implemented after a thorough beef sector study has been conducted. After four long years of inaction, the MoADFS finally invited the BNBPU in January 2017 to participate in the reference group for the study referred to in the joint resolution, which is being conducted by KPMG which will take six months to complete. The BNBPU has also proposed its own co-op BMC privatisation study to be completed within the same time frame.
