12 Nov 2015

Mr Benjamin Mosele, the managing director of Momoso Enterprises, has vowed to rise above the odds to beat all business challenges. 

He has soldiered on, despite the challenges that restrained his metal fabrication business in the heart of Kanye at Lobeko ward. 

The business mainly manufactures and repairs agricultural implements such vehicle and animal drawn planters, threshers, fodder processors as well as other metal devices and accessories. 

Momoso Enterprises product line also include: three different types of ovens which are rim, kgotletso and rectangular as well as animal proof waste bin, among others. 

Mr Mosele said his business aimed to modernise Botswana's agriculture sector in order to lure young people into the industry through the use of the most-state-of the art equipment that helped tackle youth unemployment, poverty and food insecurity.

Mr Mosele started Mechanical Engineering at the University of Botswana and completed at the Swaziland College of Technology and has also studied marketing at a diploma level.

 The business started in earnest in 1982 trading as Momoso Engineering up to 1996 and then collapsed. In 2000, he resuscitated it with a new name brand Momoso Enterprises. It has  an annual turnover of over P320 000 and boasts a staff complement of 12 people. It comes at a time when the government and the economy are heavily relying on dryland farming for employment and citizen empowerment. 

The ploughing season has already started and the business is just at the right time when farmers are looking for implements of such quality. Mr Mosele said the economy has for many years depended on imported farming implements and machinery, and therefore there is a need to create awareness and confidence on locally manufactured products. 

He said currently the economy imports almost all the machinery and implements hence a big opportunity for import substitution which comes at a reasonable price.

His business exposes Batswana to the manufacturing industry especially for products that have been deemed too complicated for citizens to do. He therefore would like to motivate and inspire new entrepreneurs so as augment food security in the country. Mr Mosele is of the view that Batswana should service agricultural implements well in time before the ploughing season starts rather than coming at the eleventh hour to recondition their machinery.

He said that would give technicians ample time to perform quality job rather than just rushing to complete because a client needs to plough.

He said that would also help a client to have sufficient time to pay for the machinery adding that if customers come during the off season they can arrange to pay through installments and collect farming implements before the ploughing season starts. Ends