Botswana gets P42m agric loan

The deal - which includes a US$4.04 million loan and a $1.61 million grant - was signed in Rome, Italy on Tuesday by the Minister of Agriculture Christiaan de Graaf and the president of IFAD Kanayo Nwanze.

In a statement, IFAD said the project would help smallholders to increase their productivity by bridging the gap between current and potential rain-fed crop yields and by demonstrating the use of urban treated wastewater for smallholder irrigation.