{"id":231551,"date":"2026-04-27T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-collaborative-farming-initiatives-drives-gdp-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:41:11","slug":"botswana-collaborative-farming-initiatives-drives-gdp-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-collaborative-farming-initiatives-drives-gdp-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Collaborative Farming Initiatives Drives GDP Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Masama \u2014 Collaborative initiatives have the capacity to make agriculture the leading contributor to Botswana&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product, Assistant Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship Baratiwa Mathoothe said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking at the Masama Farmers&#8217; Market in Masama under the theme &#8220;Smart Farming for Inclusive Economic Growth and Food Sovereignty,&#8221; Mathoothe said agriculture is the cornerstone for unlocking access to lucrative markets and advancing national economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;Horticulture and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604140335.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masama \u2014 Collaborative initiatives have the capacity to make agriculture the leading contributor to Botswana&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product, Assistant Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship Baratiwa Mathoothe said Saturday. Speaking at the Masama Farmers&#8217; Market in Masama under the theme &#8220;Smart Farming for Inclusive Economic Growth and Food Sovereignty,&#8221; Mathoothe said agriculture is the cornerstone for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,30497,12760,4309,13289,6641,7221,257,254],"class_list":["post-231551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-collaborative","tag-drives","tag-farming","tag-growth","tag-initiatives","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}