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A day in the life of a vegetable farmer in Lesotho

03 September 2019

 

Thabo Lefatle owns and runs a small vegetable farm in Lesotho’s Mafeteng district, south of the capital Maseru. He is one of 55,000 smallholder farmers in Lesotho who applied for and won public grants.

The grants are part of the Smallholder Agriculture Development Project (SADP) which is increasing competitiveness and improving market access for farmers across four districts in the country. Here is Thabo’s story in his own words.

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