CEDA Young Farmers Fund
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: CEDA Young Farmers Fund, Reply with quote. I was away when i heard of this scheme. Noble as it may seem, ...
Monday, June 16, 2008
Rural Areas To Benefit From Young Farmers Fund
Rural Areas To Benefit From Young Farmers Fund
Feb 26, 2007 ... President Festus Mogae has said that the newly-launched Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Fund (CEDA) Young Farmers Fund will open up ...
Feb 26, 2007 ... President Festus Mogae has said that the newly-launched Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Fund (CEDA) Young Farmers Fund will open up ...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Mathangwane Hits Centenary Mark
Image by quesemanas via FlickrMmegi - Gaborone, BotswanaHe encourages unemployed youngsters in the village to utilise government programmes like the Out-Of -School Youth Grant and the CEDA Young Farmers Fund. ...
CEDA Young Farmers Fund Public Forum By Botswana Government
Image via WikipediaI was away when i heard of this scheme. Noble as it may seem, i think the government missed the boat here. Myself a young man who started helping his mother plough, i can assure you; there is nothing funny about farming. There is no weekend, no night time. And i hear some-one saying the young ones can do without their beauty sleep. I doubt it very much. A lot of us having graduated with fancy degrees can't imagine translating that specialist knowledge into farming. I would have thought CEDA would have gone to that BIFSC database and looked at those qualification, gone to LEA to see if it can help the young ones in their field of expertise. Industries develpo this way. There is wastage if you take a InfoSys kid become a farmer. I f the money is there make good use of it in a positive long term undertaking.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Kwelagobe promises more developments
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
The other fund directed toward empowering the youth was the CEDA Young Farmers Fund. These programmes, he said, were created by a visionary party to create ...
The other fund directed toward empowering the youth was the CEDA Young Farmers Fund. These programmes, he said, were created by a visionary party to create ...
Ostrich News - Inbox Robot
has called for expansion of CEDA Young Farmers Fund to assist youth in urban areas, ... canning or bottling of fruits, production of animal feed and ...
Daily News
PARLIAMENT - Gaborone West South MP, Mr Robert Molefhabangwe has called for expansion of CEDA Young Farmers Fund to assist youth in urban areas, ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Dailynews Online
PARLIAMENT - Gaborone West South MP, Mr Robert Molefhabangwe has called for expansion of CEDA Young Farmers Fund to assist youth in urban areas, ...
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Repossess idle fields Mfa
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
... commended government for empowering the youth by increasing the Out of School Grant, reintroducing ALDEP and establishing the CEDA Young Farmers Fund. ...
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... commended government for empowering the youth by increasing the Out of School Grant, reintroducing ALDEP and establishing the CEDA Young Farmers Fund. ...
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Friday, February 15, 2008
BCL Fights Emmisions
They also expressed concern that the land board takes too long to process applications for commercial plots and for the CEDA's Young Farmers Fund ...
CEDA Young Farmers Fund heralds new era
Botswana is blessed with a lot of land that has remained largely unused while the vast majority of people live in abject poverty.
We should honour heroes - Mogae
He also appreciated some programmes introduced during Mr Mogaes tenure like expanded components of ALDEP III and CEDA Young Farmers Fund among other things.See all stories on this topic
Utilise Govt Schemes - DK
government departments such as Youth and Culture, the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) Young Farmers Fund, and Ministry of Agriculture. ...
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Agriculture - Farmers can soon preg-test in WA
... farmers with their unused fields while they awaited land allocation to enable them to use CEDA Young Farmers Fund. Officials of the Department of Crop. ...
YellowBrix IndustryWatch
She welcomes the newly introduced CEDA Young Farmers' Fund as a possible solution to milk shortages in the future. "Young people must utilise these ...
Monday, January 21, 2008
BCL Fights Emissions
BY ONALENNA MODIKWA
STAFF WRITER
MMADINARE: The Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Ponatshego Kedikilwe says that his ministry consults with relevant experts in an effort to reduce the concentration of BCL mine emissions.
Addressing a Kgotla meeting in Mmadinare on Friday, Kedikilwe said experts have indicated that the technology is available but it is very expensive and it may even render the mine unprofitable in the end.
He indicated that if the technology was adopted, more than P1billion would be spent annually towards reducing the concentration of the mine emissions. As such the ministry continues to explore other avenues that include observing how it would benefit companies like the Russian Norilsky before the technology can be adopted.
Kedikilwe said BCL mine was unprofitable for a long time and it survived through government's financial assistance until only recently when it became sustainable. He wondered what would happen to the more than 5, 000 population dependent on BCL if the mine was to close because of the emissions.
He added that because the mine took time to become sustainable, the government was forced to get loans from international companies that have to be paid back.
"We are currently in negotiations with those companies, KFW and ICD, to pay back their loans and these are some of the factors that make it difficult for us to adopt the very expensive technology of controlling BCL emissions. We are not just sitting but exploring other possible ways, at the same time ensuring that the mine must remain financially self- sustainable," he said.
One resident, Boatametse Senabjwe, had asked why the government cannot consider the ACTIVOX method at BCL because the issue of emissions has been there for too long. Senabjwe claimed that the only government's excuse is that projects are in the pipeline but this was overwhelmingly dismissed by the minister.
Kedikilwe had also highlighted that Copper and Nickel mining in Matsiloje's Tati Nickel is well in progress.
He said 145 villages in the country will soon be electrified as a way to ensure that services reach the people. The construction of dams like Lotsane and Thune is in progress and upon completion they will consider connecting them through a single pipeline to ensure security of water supply. "It is expensive but it can be done technically,' he added.
Meanwhile Kelesamile Direro, a local resident said the government should not ban harvesting of thatching grass because people harvest and pile it up until it rots, while it could have benefited grazing animals.
One resident also expressed the need to have graveyards in Manga and Matabi wards. They also expressed concern that the land board takes too long to process applications for commercial plots and for the CEDA's Young Farmers Fund beneficiaries to progress. They also said the Department of Water Affairs often runs short of payment receipts.
Senabjwe also urged the government to rethink the decision to transfer married couples as it contributes to other social ills.
But Kedikilwe said sometimes it is not easy to keep married couples in one area and cited transfers on promotion to a position that cannot be acquired in the same area.
"There is a directive however that couples should not be separated". Responding on behalf of the land board, Oreeditse Keboitse said it has never received any application for the YFF project and as such it has never caused any delay in land allocations to that effect.
He said they only received one complaint from a farmer.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Botswana Agriculture News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
She welcomes the newly introduced CEDA Young Farmers' Fund as a possible solution to milk ... her worries are that the climate in Botswana is very ...
CEDA Young Farmer on the Daily News
... urged residents to utilize the Local Entreperneur Authority (LEA) services and called on the youth to take advantage of CEDA Young Farmers Fund.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Botswana: manufacturers bemoan high interest rates
he encore of the familiar refrain of the almost-prohibitive costs of doing business in Botswana resulting from high finance costs and serious constraints in the local supply of raw materials was the order of the day at a BEDIA-sponsored seminar for manufacturers yesterday.
Participants used the occasion at Boipuso Hall in Gaborone to tell the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority that high interest rates and the importation of raw materials were two factors responsible for pushing costs up.
"There is no fabric factory in Botswana. This means we import from other countries," said Craig Chow, the Managing Director of apparel maker Caratex Botswana, which exports knit-to-shape jerseys or sweaters to the US under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Another concern for local manufacturers is high utility costs(charges for water, power and telecommunications). Chow said he was surprised that in Botswana, utility corporations charged the same rates for household and industrial consumption, which was not the case in other countries.
As an exporter, yet another concern for him was the fact that Botswana is a landlocked country, meaning that transport costs were beyond their calculations.
Despite these difficulties, however, Chow said Caratex had grown from one to four factories since 1989 when it was first established. Chow was joined by a manufacturer in a different field: Vijay Naik of Flo-Tek, a pipe manufacturer, also deplored Botswana's interests rates for being "very high".
For instance, the Bank of Botswana's (BoB) current bank rate is 15.00 percent while commercial banks lend to depositors at 16.50 percent. By contrast, in South Africa - Botswana's largest SADC trading partner - the SA Reserve Bank rate or repo is 9.5 percent. "Interest rates are very high. This makes capital costs the biggest input costs. The government and BEDIA need to come up with a way of subsidising industry costs," said Naik.
A miller's lack of raw materials like wheat in Botswana was the miller's main bane. Lazarus Lekgoanyana told the seminar that this meant millers had to import from South Africa.
Because of the drought, this year would be worse as demand far outstripped supply, further pushing up prices millers would have no choice but to pass on to consumers. However, Lekgoanyana said he expected government schemes like the P50 million Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) Young Farmers Fund would help the country produce raw materials locally. Simon Makobo of Lobatse-based Botswana Cap & Helmet Manufacturers asked for protection from unfair competition from traders.
Mokobo, whose company makes capping goods was, concerned that most tenders were now going to traders who import cheaper goods from the Far East.
The meeting was told that the issue of investors versus traders was a serious one because it had forced some investors to close shop.
Participants used the occasion at Boipuso Hall in Gaborone to tell the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority that high interest rates and the importation of raw materials were two factors responsible for pushing costs up.
"There is no fabric factory in Botswana. This means we import from other countries," said Craig Chow, the Managing Director of apparel maker Caratex Botswana, which exports knit-to-shape jerseys or sweaters to the US under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Another concern for local manufacturers is high utility costs(charges for water, power and telecommunications). Chow said he was surprised that in Botswana, utility corporations charged the same rates for household and industrial consumption, which was not the case in other countries.
As an exporter, yet another concern for him was the fact that Botswana is a landlocked country, meaning that transport costs were beyond their calculations.
Despite these difficulties, however, Chow said Caratex had grown from one to four factories since 1989 when it was first established. Chow was joined by a manufacturer in a different field: Vijay Naik of Flo-Tek, a pipe manufacturer, also deplored Botswana's interests rates for being "very high".
For instance, the Bank of Botswana's (BoB) current bank rate is 15.00 percent while commercial banks lend to depositors at 16.50 percent. By contrast, in South Africa - Botswana's largest SADC trading partner - the SA Reserve Bank rate or repo is 9.5 percent. "Interest rates are very high. This makes capital costs the biggest input costs. The government and BEDIA need to come up with a way of subsidising industry costs," said Naik.
A miller's lack of raw materials like wheat in Botswana was the miller's main bane. Lazarus Lekgoanyana told the seminar that this meant millers had to import from South Africa.
Because of the drought, this year would be worse as demand far outstripped supply, further pushing up prices millers would have no choice but to pass on to consumers. However, Lekgoanyana said he expected government schemes like the P50 million Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) Young Farmers Fund would help the country produce raw materials locally. Simon Makobo of Lobatse-based Botswana Cap & Helmet Manufacturers asked for protection from unfair competition from traders.
Mokobo, whose company makes capping goods was, concerned that most tenders were now going to traders who import cheaper goods from the Far East.
The meeting was told that the issue of investors versus traders was a serious one because it had forced some investors to close shop.
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