Gov’t moves to end live cattle exports

Assistant Agriculture minister, Molebatsi Molebatsi, recently said farmers would be restricted to exporting two live cattle each between July and October, then one each between then and December, when the exports would end.

“Previously when the Botswana Meat Commission was limping, we opened up and allowed you to sell live cattle outside the country,” Molebatsi told Takatokwane villagers during a kgotla meeting addressed by President Mokgweetsi Masisi recently. “We had realised that the trade was not the best and the BMC had placed a stiff price where if the cow passes a certain weight, they force and pay you a price for a lower weight. “We believe BMC has risen and from December we are stopping the live cattle exports.”