{"id":239387,"date":"2026-07-24T07:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-intensifies-dairy-research\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:13:04","slug":"botswana-govt-intensifies-dairy-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-intensifies-dairy-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Govt Intensifies Dairy Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Lobatse \u2014 Government has intensified dairy research at Sunnyside Ranch in Lobatse to determine which crossbreed is best suited for local production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Guided by the country&#8217;s economic transformation agenda, initiatives, including the Dairy Cross Breeding project and the Adoption and Introduction of the Girolando cattle breed project, aims to provide scientists with defivitive recommendations on the ideal breed that will deliver the highest milk output while exhibiting strong resilience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Lobatse \u2014 Government has intensified dairy research at Sunnyside Ranch in Lobatse to determine which crossbreed is best suited for local production. Guided by the country&#8217;s economic transformation agenda, initiatives, including the Dairy Cross Breeding project and the Adoption and Introduction of the Girolando cattle breed project, aims to provide scientists with defivitive recommendations on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,13366,4357,8013,257,6712,254],"class_list":["post-239387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-dairy","tag-govt","tag-intensifies","tag-news","tag-research","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239387","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=239387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}