Batswana dismiss backyard gardening as "a big joke"

The participants said President Ian Khama's initiative was ill conceived and does not add any value to the current efforts to combat extreme poverty in Botswana.

A participant in Selebi-Phikwe described backyard gardening as "a big unsustainable joke...a project that cannot generate much income for those involved in it because it is not attractive". The report says a number of concerns were raised about government's agricultural programmes becuase most people were not in favour of the 'one size fits all' approach. It says several speakers in Tsabong pointed out that the country's different geographical conditions should be taken into consideration in the design of agricultural programmes.