ROAD PROJECT SITE VISIT YESTERDAY

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ROAD PROJECT SITE VISIT YESTERDAY
ROAD PROJECT SITE VISIT YESTERDAY

Africa-Press – Botswana. Prospective bidders for the Motopi-Makalamabedi road tender are expected to visit the project site yesterday.

Tendering process for the project, which entails tarring of the road, will follow there after.

Vice President, Mr Slumber Tsogwane informed Makalamabedi residents during a kgotla meeting recently that the project had been included in the newly adopted National Development Transition Plan.

Residents had for a long time decried the bad state of the said road especially during rainy season.

Mr Tsogwane informed the residents that another project that was budgeted for in the 2023-2024 financial year was the Mokoboxane water treatment plant, which had already started.

Upon completion, the plant will supply villages such as Xhumo, Mopipi and Toromoja among others.

On a different matter, the vice president highlighted that government encouraged small stock farming as it was lucrative.

He said in an effort to empower small stock farmers in the country, relevant departments had been tasked to identify suitable land for small stock ranches to be allocated to Batswana.

Mr Tsogwane further told Makalamabedi residents that government would continue looking for a foreign market for small stock.

The current government, he said, wanted to see every Motswana benefiting from value chains.

He also talked about the new ISPAAD, which he said would be implemented this ploughing season.

On another issue, the VP decried rampant stock theft in Boteti and encouraged farmers to form syndicates to fight the crime.

He noted that an anti-stock theft police unit had been established and already 150 officers had been trained and would be deployed in various stations across the country.

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