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Botswana Beef
Facts about beef in Botswana
- Unlike Hindus- people in Botswana are not averse to slaughtering cattle for consumption.
- Apart from South Africa- the UK is the biggest importer of Botswana beef in the world.
- Botswana has 26.2 beef consumption per capita in 2009.
- Protecting states in Botswana have experienced higher levels of domestic production- higher prices and- consequently- lower consumption than would otherwise have been the case. Their surplus exports have tended to depress world prices- widening further the gap between the world and the domestic price.
- Domestic consumption of beef has also grown. This lens provides a very sharp focusing of the problems faced by the beef industry.
