Ministry of Lands and Agriculture

Department of Animal Production (DAP)

• To make the livestock sub-sector competitive and reduce the country’s reliance on imports of livestock products that can be viably produced in the country.
• To transfer skills and technologies on the various animal science disciplines to make livestock production attractive and profitable to farmers, thus creating employment opportunities, increasing rural incomes and reducing rural urban migration.
• It provides expert advice to livestock farmers on livestock improvement and product development in terms of breeding, nutrition, housing, processing and optimal use of rangelands.
• It also assists subsistence farmers to transform their operations to commercial levels, as well as, enabling commercial farmers to upgrade their level of management and technology application.

Department of Crop Production (DCP)

• To make arable sub-sector competitive and reduce the country’s reliance on imports through assisting farmers to upgrade their level of management and technology application.
• It controls pests of national importance and provides an advisory role on matters relating to agricultural resource conservation.

Department of Agribusiness Promotion (DABP)

• To promote a commercialized, diversified, sustainable and competitive agricultural sector through business skills transfer, promotion of agricultural cooperatives and associations, market access negotiations, investment promotion and promotion of market led production.

Department of Veterinary Services (DVS)

• Provides animal and public health services to achieve sustainable and competitive livestock industry through prevention and control of nationally and economically important animal diseases.

Department of Plant Health (DPH)

• It serves as the National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO) of Botswana, responsible for plant health and implementing the Plant Protection Act (Cap 35.02) to prevent the introduction, spread, and establishment of plant pests, facilitate trade, and comply with international obligations, including the international Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). 

Department of Corporate Services (DCS)

• Coordinates resources, and provides administrative, corporate communication and other support services to other Ministry departments to enable them to deliver on their mandates

Division of Agricultural Information and Public Relations (DAIPR)

• Coordinates the public relations function of the Ministry.
• It is also responsible for the dissemination of agricultural information and development of teaching aids. 

Ministry Parastatals and key functions

Botswana Meat Commission (BMC)

• It is mandated to purchase and slaughter livestock, process and sell meat and other animal products to promote the interests of the livestock industry.

Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board (BAMB)

• It provides a market for all locally grown scheduled crops such as cereals, pulses (beans) and oils seeds whilst ensuring that adequate supplies exist for sale to customers at affordable prices.
• It acts as a one stop agricultural service centre to the farming community and general public.

Botswana Vaccine Institute (BVI)

• Its mandate is to support the livestock industry by conducting research and manufacturing of all kinds of vaccines for sale throughout the world.

National Agricultural Research and Development Institution (NARDI) 

NARDI aims to increase the contribution of Agriculture to Botswana’s GDP by

•  Improving utilisation of agricultural produce and natural products;
•  Fostering inclusion and knowledge transfer initiatives; 
•  Providing innovative solutions and adaptations to climate change, yield improvement and commercialisation of agriculture across Botswana’s Agro-Ecological Zones. 

• Overall, the Company has a vision to be a renowned transformative agricultural Research and Development institute, and a mission to generate innovative solutions for the agricultural sector.

  Botswana Meat Industry Regulatory Authority (MIRA)

• Its mandated to promote the interests of the livestock and meat industry to ensure the profitability, sustainability and competitiveness of the industry including accelerating innovation, research and development of the livestock and meat industry.  

Real Estate Advisory Council (REAC)

• To provide for the regulation of activities and conduct of the real estate profession in Botswana and other matters incidental thereto. 
• It is also mandated to set standards and ensure compliance to best practice standards

Botswana Veterinary Surgeons Council (BVSC)

• It is mandated to provide for the registration and control of veterinary surgeons and for other matters incidental thereto and connected with the practice of veterinary surgery and veterinary medicine.