THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF POTLAKO HUB BOTSAWNA SHARED HOW THEY ARE EMPOWERING YOUTHS AND WOMEN THROUGH AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES,HE WAS ONE OF THE PANELIST ON 6TH DECEMBER,2021 ONLINE DISCUSSION.HE PRESENTED HOW THEIR COMPANY IS WORKING AS FOLLOWS,
“Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, My name is Potlako M.D. Malikongwa I am from the blue, White and Black Country called Botswana, am a Small Business Management graduate and a Human Resource Management student. I am a founder and CEO of a newly found organization called Potlako Hub; a company that helps individuals and organizations create value they’ve looking for through Mentorship, Trainings, Coaching, Consulting, and Advisory and Youth Empowerment. I am also Junior Achievement Botswana Patron.”
HOW THE ORGANISATION/COMPANY IS EMPOWERING YOUTHS AND WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE.
“Youth empowerment as our service; our programs provides youth a unique series of enrichment and youth development opportunities, while simultaneously providing them with skills they can readily use such as Workshops & Professional Development, Mentorship Programs etc.”
HOW MANY YOUTHS AND WOMEN HAVE BENEFITED FROM YOUR SERVICES:
‘To date I have 8 youth have benefited from my services (Youth Empowerment) whom we trained on Business plan training course workshop.’
WHAT ARE THE POSITIVE IMPACTS OF YOUR ORGANISATION/COMPANY ON YOUTHS AND WOMEN
The company have helped young people in starting their businesses and encourage them to venture into agriculture in order to feed our locals and also to provide innovate projects that can compete globally.
WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS WOULD YOU GIVE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BOTSWANA
- Develop market friendly university-industry collaboration
- Build networks in knowledge–incentive sector with leading science experts and academics around the world
- Give researchers and innovators streamlined access to cost-effective patent protections
- Promote PPPs and mixed public/private structures to diffuse innovation
ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The agriculture sector in Botswana is dominated by cattle rearing and subsistence farming, but it suffers from erratic rainfall and soil erosion. Rain-fed farming is the norm. Agriculture supplies food to only half of the population. Presently, the contribution of agriculture to the GDP is barely 3 per cent, and about 80 per cent of that comes from the livestock sub-sector. Only about 0.4 per cent of the total land area is cultivable, and the average farm size is 2.3 hectares. Sorghum and maize are main crops but groundnut, beans, sunflower and millet are also grown. I encourage university-based research and agriculture centers in and outside Botswana to support innovation and facilitate skill acquainted among young people and women.
Well done! Congrats