{"id":17154,"date":"2022-11-18T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo"},"modified":"2022-11-18T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:16:31","slug":"govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo","title":{"rendered":"Govt Replaces ISPAAD with Temo-Letlotlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The government has decided to replace the embattled Integrated Support Programme for Arable Agricultural Development (ISPAAD) with a new support scheme called Temo-Letlotlo that is intended to improve productivity and promote commercialised arable farming.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced the new agricultural scheme on Monday when presenting his State of the Nation Address (SONA) for this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to operational challenges, Temo-Letlotlo programme, which is to replace the ISPAAD programme, will now be implemented during the 2023\/2024 financial year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this end, the current ISPAAD programme will continue during the 2022\/2023 ploughing season. Temo-Letlotlo is intended to improve productivity and promote commercialised arable farming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masisi identified uneven distribution of ISPAAD resources as one of the reasons to phase out the agricultural support scheme that was introduced in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><b>Average rainfall<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He said although the average rainfall was good for the 2021\/22 ploughing season, distribution across the country was uneven, which affected yields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2021, the total production reduced from 100,000 tonnes to over 66,000, which represents a 34 percent decrease,\u201d the President noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis undermined our ability to meet the national cereal demand, which challenges us to rethink our food production strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plans to replace IPAAD with another programme first came to light in 2021 when then agriculture minister Karabo Gare said it was ineffective in improving the country\u2019s crop production.<\/p>\n<p>Gare spoke of the ministry devising a more cost-effective and sustainable arable farming programme to enhance agricultural productivity and output.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe programme, which will guide arable assistance, is intended to increase yields of selected crops through introduction of output-based encashment, introduction of insurance cover, seasonal guaranteed loans as well as robust promotion of investment in crop production by increasing agricultural commodities in the product space from four to at least 10 products by year 2024,\u201d Gare said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. The government has decided to replace the embattled Integrated Support Programme for Arable Agricultural Development (ISPAAD) with a new support scheme called Temo-Letlotlo that is intended to improve productivity and promote commercialised arable farming. President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced the new agricultural scheme on Monday when presenting his State of the Nation Address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-17154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt Replaces ISPAAD with Temo-Letlotlo - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government has decided to replace the embattled Integrated Support Programme for Arable Agricultural Development ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt Replaces ISPAAD with Temo-Letlotlo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government has decided to replace the embattled Integrated Support Programme for Arable Agricultural Development ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-18T16:33:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-18T17:16:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1668776698.58.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Govt Replaces ISPAAD with Temo-Letlotlo\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-18T16:33:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-18T17:16:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo\"},\"wordCount\":306,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1668776698.58.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/govt-replaces-ispaad-with-temo-letlotlo\",\"name\":\"Govt Replaces ISPAAD with Temo-Letlotlo - 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