Motloutse electrification a boon for farmers � Molefhi
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Molefhi, who is also the Infrastructure and Housing Development Minister, told a recent Kgotla meeting that farmers had had to spend half a million Pula to connect their farms to the grid and the project would reduce these costs to as little as P18,000.
“Therefore farmers will not have an excuse for not connecting electricity and embark on commercial activities that employ others,” he said.
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