Less than an hour's drive west of Botswana's capital, Gaborone, is the small farming community of Ramaphatle, and it is here that Willy Kathurima and his wife Doreen have set up a thriving farming operation to produce strawberries, garlic and ginger. The motto of their business, Ramaphatle Greens, is 'smart horticulture farming', which underlines their ambition to produce high-quality crops both profitably and sustainably.
They started production in 2018 with tomatoes, green peppers and cucumbers destined for retailers in Gaborone. The Kathurimas very soon discovered, however, that the tomato and pepper markets were saturated, so they ventured into ginger, garlic
