{"id":240460,"date":"2026-08-06T07:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-prisons-harvest-crops-worth-over-p2million\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:43:45","slug":"botswana-prisons-harvest-crops-worth-over-p2million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-prisons-harvest-crops-worth-over-p2million\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Prisons Harvest Crops Worth Over P2million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Molepolole \u2014 The Botswana Prison Service has recorded an agricultural harvest worth more than P2 million during the 2025\/2026 cropping season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The yield includes 3 000 bags of maize, 368 bags of sorghum, and 147 bags of beans, demonstrating how offender rehabilitation contributes to national food production and government cost savings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Officially opening the Prison Harvest Day at Molepolole Prison on Tuesday, Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Mr Nelson Ramaotwana said the total&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608050637.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>Molepolole \u2014 The Botswana Prison Service has recorded an agricultural harvest worth more than P2 million during the 2025\/2026 cropping season. The yield includes 3 000 bags of maize, 368 bags of sorghum, and 147 bags of beans, demonstrating how offender rehabilitation contributes to national food production and government cost savings. Officially opening the Prison [&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":[258,256,4718,2462,7856,7880,257,55064,7398,254,5084],"class_list":["post-240460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-crops","tag-harvest","tag-news","tag-p2million","tag-prisons","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240460","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=240460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240460\/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=240460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}