OPPORTUNITIES AT MY DOOR STEP

PRESENTED BY

LEKGATLHANYE KANELOBSc Crop ScienceMSc Agriculture and Development

What puts us at an advantage Abundance of water • ground water • surface water Good alluvial soils - fertility Seasonal flooding- molapo farming

(Timely planting) Relatively good climate - variety of

crops almost all year round Access to ploughing & grazing land-

land not an excuse Good Indigenous Knowledge Systems

(IKS) – adaptation & resilience to climate change

Possible opportunities Animal production• Cattle production• Small stock -Goats/sheep• Rabbit production• Pig production, PoultryChallenges• FMD• Drought ( overgrazing)• Rapidly changing climate• Predation• Mogau• Shortage of market and

extremely low prices from the local market

Horticulture (Irrigation)

Field crops (Rainfed)

VegetablesCabbage, Onion,

carrots, beetroots,Spinach,

pumpkins, butternut

Green beansGreen mealies

TomatoPeppers

LegumesBeans,

cowpeas,bambara

nuts, G/nuts

Fruit prod

MangoOranges

Cerealsmaize,

sorghum, millet,

sweet reed

miscellaneousFloricultureLandscapingFodder prod’

sunflower

Arable sub-sector

service providers agrochemicals dealers, irrigation equipment sales, farm implements and machinery, agro-processing industries

5. Govt policies & Practices (enabling

env’)

5.Knowledge Systems

7. External economic relations

4. New & improved

methods of production

1. Effective demand

3. Resources to support

extra output

2. Output delivery systems

7 group of factors