Botswana: Record Keeping Is Important For Agriculture

By Tshepo Mongwa

Tobane – Record keeping is an integral part of every business because it gives advice and an understanding of the progress made or failures suffered by farmers in their projects.

It is for this reason that the plant production in collaboration with Agri-Business in Selebi Phikwe has engaged farmers of Tshokwe and Tobane in a course on record keeping

. The four-day initiation held at Tobane recently brought together some twenty farmers. Mr. Israel Baipoledi, District Crop Production Officer, explained that the registers also set out the best practices to be implemented to improve production in order to obtain a better return.

encourage agricultural managers to think, act and judge systematically in order to manage the agricultural project more objectively.

He mentions that the documents received by the Government The agent said that the government would be able to make an informed decision on the basis of the country's performance in the areas of budget planning and the taking of decision-making in areas such as budgeting to finance agricultural production projects. With regard to food production in some parts of the country and to plan the necessary funds to invest in the promotion of food production and food security in the country. "Farmers' files help the government to formulate national policies and programs plans of action are put in place," he said. Meanwhile, Golaotsemang Morena, agronomist, said that the government's decision to put in place a record keeping system for farmers helped empower them

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He mentioned that farmers participating in the record keeping course were learning how to manage their projects and recorded files on issues such as expenses incurred during production, the number of crops produced and the income earned is the implementation or use of lessons learned by farmers for better projects to improve production

We want to see a positive impact. "

Ms. Oabile Lesego representing horticultural farmers and Grace Mooketsi Farmers in the region have recognized the government for introducing the farmer record keeping program.

They said that they first sued The agricultural projects of Iran would go squarely without skills and knowledge, saying that they would be able to track the progress made in regarding the expenditure of their agricultural projects and the profits made.

Source: BOPA