Phikwe Coop eyes to seal commercial project deals
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Pula Steel is one of the companies that the cooperatives is looking to do business with
The projects range from establishing game parks, horticulture, manufacturing and dairy farming.
The society’s chairman, Tebogo Venson said in an interview that they have been offered animals to start up a game park, but the only challenge delaying the project is unavailability of land.
Acting Agriculture Minister, Edwin Dikoloti, is right in saying opening an export-ready facility whilst Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is still spreading would risk getting the whole country blacklisted before a single carcass leaves the door.A ban like that would break the already stressed nation. So, the postponement, painful as it is, is the right thing to do. The local economy is being squeezed from both ends. FMD has already slammed the door...