Farmers play politics to force Masisi to open Francistown BMC

The BMC closed its operations here at the beginning of the year citing low supply of cattle from the farming community, hence it was losing millions of Pula to keep the Francistown BMC operational. If the big round of applause and murmurs of approval were a measure of how the farmers felt during their meeting to brainstorm on how they may compel the government to re-open the Francistown BMC, then it’s safe to state that the farmers have embraced the idea of using political capital to push their demand of the re-opening of the facility.

This happened after a farmer from Matsiloje, Simon Lephalo, put a proposal before the cattle farmers to include their Members of Parliament (MPs) to fight in their corner in their bid to re-open the Francistown BMC.