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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Lehlohonolo Mokhethi is a farmer who has been running a successful poultry business, thanks to a small loan he got from a local bank. He now has 300 chickens.<\/p>\n

He says his vision is to rear 5 000 chickens by 2025 and employ 30 youths. But he is now grappling with a new challenge: the ever increasing cost of chicken feed.<\/p>\n

That is threatening the viability of his business. \u201cThe biggest challenge is that food prices increase every day, feeding is expensive,\u201d Mokhethi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite difficult to make profit in business if each and every day food prices increase. Today I am buying a bag of food with a certain amount then the next day the price has increased,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur customers fail dismally to understand that food has increased and the Chinese are taking our market because they sell at a low price thus I run at a loss.<\/p>\n

\u201d Last week, a top attorney in Maseru who is also a prominent farmer, Tiisetso Sello-Mafatle, called a meeting for farmers to discuss these challenges.<\/p>\n

She says the government must regulate the prices of livestock feed. That is critical if the farming business is to succeed, she says. Attorney Sello-Mafatle says farmers must come up with a structure for livestock feed prices which they would present to the government for gazetting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should state our regulations and give them to the government to make everything easy for both parties because we cannot wait for the government to make regulations for us,\u201d Sello-Mafatle says.<\/p>\n

She adds that \u201cfarmers should be bullish about what they want and never have fear endorsing new things\u201d. \u201cI will not be challenged or cry (because of) what life throws at me but I will cry when things are not happening the right way,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Mafatle says farmers need to know who they are and know the capabilities they have. \u201cThis will help a farmer in becoming the best in any field they are in once they are confident about themselves,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Karabo Lijo, another participant, said they have to influence the cost of inputs in agriculture, especially livestock feed. \u201cWe have to go back to cost-price analysis where as farmers we are able to derive the selling price and the break-even point in our production,\u201d Lijo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can also derive the stable or constant mark-ups on our products,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to do research to increase the ability to produce byproducts which are likely to have the longest shelve life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The meeting urged farmers to diversify their products by introducing such things as mushroom farming. They said mushrooms can grow very well in Lesotho due to its favourable climate. The farmers also demanded that there should be regulations on how land can be sold or borrowed in Lesotho.<\/p>\n

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