BMC automates Maun abattoir to boost capacity

Maun plant manager, Mothobi Mothobi said the abattoir would be closed for a period of a month from mid-July to mid-August. He said the maintenance and uprade work would also solve farmers’ concerns that the abattoir does not buy enough cattle from farmers since the automation would increase the plant capacity by 33 percent  from  slaughtering 90 to 120 animals a day.

Mothobi also said they are going to put up automated rail in both the de-boning and killing floors from the current manual system where carcasses are pulled and pushed by hands. The works will also involve increasing freezing capacity of the abattoir to boost cattle sales outside Ngamiland.