Farmers relegated to stepchildren

Friday, January 12, 2018

Before the discovery of diamonds, farmers were regarded as this country’s economic backbone.

Now, Botswana’s hard-working farmers are hardly engaged and not getting accurate, timely and relevant advice from research and policy developers. As it is, we are likely to experience another worst low rain season.

But research and policy developers’ silence is deafening, keeping the struggling subsistence farmers especially, who make the majority and bear the responsibility for supporting most families, in the dark.

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