Poultry & Vegetable Farming as a Business
About Course
Botswana has restricted imports of 16 vegetables and is short of local producers, not customers. This course turns a backyard, a yard tap and a few thousand Pula into a poultry or vegetable business that keeps records, keeps buyers and can apply for support.
What you will learn
- Choosing between broilers, layers and vegetables with a simple scoring grid — and picking the right site
- Raising a batch of broilers, running a laying flock and growing vegetables from seedling to sale, to Botswana Ministry of Agriculture standards
- Costing a batch, break-even, cash flow and the four records funders read first
- Finding and keeping buyers — households, tuckshops, hostels, restaurants, supermarkets and the Letsema market — with a phone, not a shop
- Thuo Letlotlo, Lemang Dijo, the Youth Development Fund, CEDA and LEA; land, water, registration, tax and the animal-health and food-safety rules
Who should attend
School leavers, young people and families with a backyard or a field, existing backyard farmers who want to sell properly, and anyone preparing an application to Thuo Letlotlo, the Youth Development Fund or CEDA.
Format: 4 weeks, fully online and self-paced on stadira.com — 8 illustrated modules with more than 40 diagrams, quizzes with explained answers, a fill-in Student Workbook with record templates, printable lesson notes, and a final Farm Plan Project. Learn at your own pace, wherever you are. Tutor support by email and WhatsApp.
Certificate: Certificate of Competence issued on passing the final exam (60%) and the Farm Plan Project — from a Botswana-registered institute, and accepted as proof of training in support-programme applications.
Made for Botswana: every number is local — Botswana broiler and layer guidelines, the 16 restricted vegetables, Thuo Letlotlo tiers, BAITS, Land Boards, CIPA and BURS. Follow Kagiso from Serowe as he turns 50 chicks in his grandmother’s yard into “Kagiso Fresh Farm” — and build YOUR farm plan alongside him, module by module.
Course Content
Week 1 · Module 1 — Farming as a Business in Botswana
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Module 1 Quiz — Farming as a Business in Botswana
Week 1 · Module 2 — Choosing Your Enterprise and Your Site
Week 2 · Module 3 — Broiler Production
Week 2 · Module 4 — Layers and Eggs
Week 3 · Module 5 — Vegetable Production
Week 3 · Module 6 — Money: Costing, Pricing, Cash Flow and Records
Week 4 · Module 7 — Selling: Finding and Keeping Your Buyers
Week 4 · Module 8 — Funding, Support and Compliance
Final Assessment — Exam & Farm Plan Project
Earn a certificate
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