14 Aug 2025

Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) is unlikely to make any profit this financial year due to accumulated losses incurred since January. 

Acting Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Dr Edwin Dikoloti, when responding to a parliamentary question from Kgatleng West MP, Dr Unity Dow on Tuesday, therefore said the ministry was working on transforming the operations of BMC to make it profitable sooner rather than later.

He said that a number of strategies were being implemented that included focusing on operational improvements, re-construction of the value chain that could provide the required cattle throughput that would help reduce BMC’s operational costs.

He also affirmed that plans were there to privatise BMC so as to optimise value and equity for all.

Dr Dikoloti opined that the lessons that other state-owned entities could learn from BMC were that, there was need to acknowledge a problem, analyse it, determine one’s role and work on correcting it. 

Dr Dow had wanted to know whether BMC would make a profit during this current financial year. ENDS