12 May 2016

Being a major player in ensuring the sustainability of arable farming in Botswana through concerted efforts to market, sell and store farming produce, Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board (BAMB) sponsored nine farmers to the prestigious NAMPO harvest show in South Africa.  

In an interview the principal public relations officer at BAMB, Ms Kushata Modiakgotla,  said as part of their corporate social investment to empower and grow the market of grain they found it fit to take local farmers to one of the biggest grain shows in the continent.

Ms Modiakgotla said the show which starts on May 17 to May 20 will give Batswana farmers who have been drawn from different districts in the country an opportunity to meet with big grain producers in South Africa who will share some farming techniques with them.

She said the NAMPO agricultural trade show, known as  Nampo Harvest Day or “Nampo Oesdag” in Afrikaans has been held annually at Bothaville in the Free State Province since 1974 and is described as one of the largest in world attracting some 70 000 visitors in past years.

Ms Modiakgotla said BAMB in collaboration with National Development Bank and Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency last year sponsored eight farmers on an educational visit to attend the 38^th Expointer in Port Alegre, Rio Do Sul, Brazil from August 28 to September 6. The agricultural fair held in Latin America is recognised worldwide as one of the largest of its segment as a showpiece in the agroindustry. ENDS