Gantsi Farmers Association members have expressed concern about the suspension of beef export to European Union (EU) and other trading partners following the buffalo incursion at Moreane crush of Letlhakane East in the Southern District. Farmers said they are affected as main suppliers of beef to the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC). They say their businesses are running at a loss, warning that the beef industry is doomed to fail. Gantsi Farmers Association’s representative France Kanguaiko said, “There is no business here. Gantsi farmers are the main suppliers of beef to the Southern district including some businesses in Gaborone”. They supply major meat retailers like Senn Foods. He also decried that soon the southern part of the country will soon be run out of beef. “In Gantsi we can sell our meat but most of our market is in the south, and this will affect us”, he said. Kanguaiko also expressed fears since they are not going to selling cattle to BMC it will collapse as they (Gantsi) farmers supply 40 percent of beef to the parastatal. “This will have bad consequences on individuals’ life and the economy of the country,” he decried. He was worried about the possibility of outbreak…
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