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28th January 2021
The Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board (BAMB) has accessed an amount of P200 million from the Covid-19 fund for use to buy local farm produce to replenish Strategic Grain Reserves (SGR).
Giving an update on national sectorial update on response to Covid-19, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security, Jimmy Opelo stated that the purchase of harvest from local farmers is on-going since 2020. He added that other plans and interventions include providing BAMB with capacity to procure all the anticipated local harvest of 244 706 mt of cereals for the 2019/2020 ploughing season, as per the April 2020 Covid-19 Response plan.