mmegi

Veggie ban makes up for huge import bill

Hopeful: Delivering SONA this week, Masisi highlighted that they need to make up for their huge vegetable, fruit import bill and mature to export to other countries.
Hopeful: Delivering SONA this week, Masisi highlighted that they need to make up for their huge vegetable, fruit import bill and mature to export to other countries.

There are still issues of low supply, poor quality of produce, inflated prices and smuggling among others but President Mokgweetsi Masisi is confident that the vegetable import ban which came into effect on January 1 this year will bear fruits in the long run and make up for previous huge vegetable import bill.

Delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA) this week, Masisi highlighted that they need to make up for their huge vegetable, fruit import bill and mature to export to other countries.

The ban had targeted 16 vegetables such as onions, butternut, tomatoes, watermelons, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, and ginger but three crops, in particular, potatoes, tomatoes and onions accounted for 53% of the horticultural import bill.

Editor's Comment
The Boko-led administration has to tread carefully

‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...

Have a Story? Send Us a tip
arrow up