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Ploughing season extended amid FMD outbreak

Ploughing field PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG.
Ploughing field PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG.

FRANCISTOWN: With government nearing to cull cloven-hoofed animals in some parts of the North East District (NED) to prevent the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), arable farming is going on in full steam in the district, says an official from the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA).

In Botswana like in most parts of Africa, most small-scale farmers practise arable and pastoral farming and they depend on rainfall to water their crops.

Arable farmers in NED have taken advantage of the government's extension of the ploughing season, says Kelebogile Mosarwe, MoA’s public relations officer in the north east.

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