Farming is the heart and soul uplifting livelihoods for over 80% of rural Botswana today directly through rainfed crops and livestock rearing at mostly subsistence levels thus far explaining high poverty ratios still given existing production systems operating without modernization largely hampered by erratic weather, post harvest wastages and market access inefficiencies throttling turnaround attempts time and again.
Yet the sector’s strategic transformation potential still shines bright by attracting investments into irrigation infrastructure building resilience against recurrent droughts, testing greenhouse pilots nurturing next gen age-entrepreneurs growing high value produce, exploring meat processing and legumes exports potential leveraging preferential trade access and even evaluating special agriculture zones for priority value chains like dairy and poultry adding value in country while saving forex outflows currently funding imports reliance through production gaps plugging!
The good news is customized agriculture solutions is what partnerships with experienced players like RFC promise to bring to the table by leveraging proven expertise guiding rural prosperity from past advisory projects! Be it seeds and cultivation advisory or market linkages facilitation, RFC brings integrated recommendations to uplift both smallholder incomes and national food self-sufficiency rates leveraging every agricultural resource sustainably while elevating export readiness.