Africa-Press – Botswana. The Member of Parliament(MP) for Mochudi East, Mr Mabuse Pule has appealed to resident to desist from selling land.
Addresing kgotla meeting at Boseja South in Mochudi on Wednesday, the MP said residents should commercialise horticultural farming to earn a living instead of selling their land.
Mr Pule said Kgatleng was endowed with resources that would make farming easier and encouraged constituents to plough high value crops such as garlic and others which they could sell and make use of their proximity to the capital city.
“I encourage you to resuscitate our old ways of farming whereby you reside at your fields so that you take care of your produce,” he said.
He said Ipelegeng programme was not a long term initiative and was only meant to relief residents of economic hardships, hence they should not rely on it.
Mr Pule further encouraged them to use ear tags for their livestock for easy traceability in cases of stock theft.
He also informed residents that the old ISPAADD would continue until the end of the ploughing season, which he said they should utilise.
MP Pule also encouraged residents to embrace the Secure Land Titles (SLT) certification aimed at easing valuing of land and reducing costs of valuing land for other purposes, adding that it was also meant to be used as security or collateral to access financial assistance from banks.
Mochudi Sub Land Board chairperson, Mr Monageng Matsetse emphasised that the SLT had accurate and reliable information important and helpful to policy makers.
He told residents to embrace it as it also reduced costs of engaging private land surveyors.
Mr Matsetse also advised residents to always apply for VDC plots through the council, but noted that the board had previously not been sitting because of failure to form a quorum.
Meanwhile, the MP also informed residents about road developments that Modipane- Ntswanalatheku was budgeted for in the Transitional National Development Plan and that more internal road networks covering 25km were budgeted for at Mmathubudukwane in preparation for the earmarked sub district.
Kgatleng District deputy council secretary, Mr Lucky Maoto said Constituency Community Project funds would pay off in improvement of most internal roads in the district. He encouraged residents to always submit their proposals for planning purposes to the district council, so that their priorities could be budgeted for.
The meeting also heard that debushing of Morwa-Mmapole road would be done, including its maintenance and that the tender had been awarded and was in a cooling off period.
For More News And Analysis About Botswana Follow Africa-Press
