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Alosa plans automated operations

Alosa plans automated operations
Alosa plans automated operations

FRANCISTOWN: A Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) funded business entity, Alosa Feeds, has an ambitious plan to automate its operations in future to improve its efficiencies and profits.

Alosa—a wholly citizen youth-owned enterprise—was funded with P500,000 by BDC in March 2021, after it won the BDC’s flagship entrepreneurship development programme dubbed the Business Den in 2020 but it started operating at the beginning of this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of the founders of Alosa, Samuel Ntshiwa, a Mining Engineering and Economics graduate, told the gathering that Alosa, which is currently doing well, is planning to automise its operations to increase its output and meet the demand of the market.

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