Agronomist predicts high yield

Phineas Pheto of the National Master Plan for Arable Agriculture and Dairy Development (NAMPAAD) argues that the good yield forecast is not based on the fact that people have crops in their fields. It is based on the continuous rains covering large parts of Botswana. 

Pheto says farmers who had prepared their land and waited to accumulate soil moisture and planted in late November to 2007 have their crops at the vegetative stage. "These are the crops that have potential to achieve better yields," he says.