Agricultural census empowers youth

Statistics Botswana Headquarters
Statistics Botswana Headquarters

The ongoing agricultural census, conducted by Statistics Botswana (SB) has employed 153 people who are enrolled at Tirelo Sechaba as enumerators.

The organisation’s manager of communication, documentation and dissemination, Lillian Setimela said the selected individuals would work with 117 more from the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and SB. 

“About 53 of them are supervisors, 11 quality controllers and another 53 drivers. We tapped into our existing database of Tirelo Sechaba for available participants. The Tirelo Sechaba office and the Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture worked with us to identify these enumerators,” she said.

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