The promise of four young men with green fingers in Pilikwe

Four young men have set up a vegetable farm project at Tsholwane farmlands near Pilikwe with the express purpose of reducing the dominance of Botswana's vegetable market by produce from South Africa.

Motswagole Mogare, Kabelo Mogare, Gosiame Molatlhegi and Mpho Mpofu started Heinz Farm with a loan from CEDA's Young Farmers Fund in 2005.

"We managed to secure a place near the clinic where we grew vegetables," says the 28-year old spokesman of the group, Motswagole. "Unfortunately, the project proved unsustainable because the money was not enough to buy irrigation equipment."

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