{"id":33322,"date":"2023-08-28T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/lelatisitswe-encourages-farmers-to-form-clusters"},"modified":"2023-08-28T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:48:36","slug":"lelatisitswe-encourages-farmers-to-form-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/lelatisitswe-encourages-farmers-to-form-clusters","title":{"rendered":"LELATISITSWE ENCOURAGES FARMERS TO FORM CLUSTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Farmers in Mmeya and Mokubilo in the Boteti district have been advised to form clusters for effortless benefit of government initiatives such as electrified field fencing.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a Kgotla meeting in Mmeya recently, Boteti East MP, Mr Sethomo Lelatisitswe highlighted that it was also important to register such clusters.<\/p>\n<p>He said government took a decision to provide grants at 100 per cent for solar electrification of field fences in elephant prone areas such as Mmeya and Mokubilo.<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, was to be done in collaboration with the Department of Wildlife and National Parks for cost effective solar electrification options.<\/p>\n<p>The legislator therefore pleaded with land boards to fast track land allocation so that more people could have fields and eventually benefit from the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Government, Mr Lelatisitswe said, had also extended the Impact Accelerator Subsidy to cover irrigation of field crops through borehole equipping and water reticulation in commercial production clusters.<\/p>\n<p>Mmeya resident, Mr Kebatsaletswe Keithaganetse commended government for the solar electrification of field fences initiative, saying elephants had been terrorising farmers at their fields.<\/p>\n<p>He said for the longest time people of Mmeya lived in agony, especially during harvest season as animals fed on farmers\u2019 crops leaving them empty handed every year.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident, Mr Lashiwani Badza concurred and applauded the electrification of fields.<\/p>\n<p>He however highlighted that something needed to be done about elephants encroaching into human settlements, noting that co-existing with such animals proved to be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>On a different matter, in Mokubilo, MP Lelatisitswe told residents that a clinic with maternity ward was on cards.<\/p>\n<p>He said the project was to be undertaken through the Transitional National Development Plan.<\/p>\n<p>This followed complaints from the constituents that the current Mokubilo clinic needed to be upgraded and that the population had outgrown the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Residents also had decried the long distance traveled to Letlhakane to access maternity services.<\/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. Farmers in Mmeya and Mokubilo in the Boteti district have been advised to form clusters for effortless benefit of government initiatives such as electrified field fencing. Addressing a Kgotla meeting in Mmeya recently, Boteti East MP, Mr Sethomo Lelatisitswe highlighted that it was also important to register such clusters. 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