Prisoners to power large-scale farming

Prisoners FILE PIC
Prisoners FILE PIC

The local prison population of about 2,000 will soon engage in large-scale agricultural projects to boost the country’s vulnerable food security status and assist nutrition levels in prisons and the country at large.

The prisoners will receive as yet unspecified allowances in return for their work.

Mmegi has learnt that the move is influenced by the Zimbabwean Command Agriculture Scheme and Namibia Green Scheme agricultural projects, which are spearheaded by the inmates. Apparently a prisons’ taskforce was recently sent to benchmark in Namibia and Zimbabwe.

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