Lesotho produces 10% of its potatoes and imports $64m in grain from South Africa as minister warns food import bill is outpacing production

Lesotho produces just ten percent of its own potato needs and imports more than 236,000 tonnes of grain from South Africa each year, as the Minister of Agriculture calls for urgent commercialisation of the sector and warns that the country’s food import bill is growing faster than its capacity to produce. STAFF REPORTER  ·  LESOTHO TRIBUNE Lesotho’s Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition, Selibe Mochoboroane, has used the commemoration of International Potato Day to lay bare the scale of…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in Advertisement ...