The Botswana Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Union (BAMCU) and the Botswana Mercantile Exchange (BMX) have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at transforming the landscape of agricultural trade and structural markets for farmer cooperatives across Botswana.
GABORONE, BOTSWANA
Thursday 29 October 2026
The Botswana Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Union (BAMCU) and the Botswana Mercantile Exchange (BMX) have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at transforming the landscape of agricultural trade and structural markets for farmer cooperatives across Botswana.
The agreement is centered on four (4) key partnership Pillars:
Establishing formal contract farming market access frameworks to secure stable and secured income for cooperative farmers.
Linking smallholder and cooperative producers directly to fair, real-time prices, discovery mechanisms.
Providing educational workshops and training programs to equip local cooperatives to use warehouse receipts, exchange trading and risk-management strategies.
Leveraging regulated structures to optimize commodity storage, minimize post-harvest losses, and unlock trade finance opportunities.
‘’ The Botswana Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Union primary mission is to strengthen farmer cooperative societies across the nation," according to the Chairperson of BAMCU, Mr. Kabelo Tsalaile. "Partnering with BMX provides our farmers with diverse market and unified platform to scale up from subsistence farming into commercial’. ‘’We are very excited by this collaboration with the BMX’.
"The Botswana Mercantile Exchange was built to guarantee fair returns to farmers in a transparent and efficient manner’’ According to the BMX CEO, Dr Kadri Alfah. "This partnership with the Botswana Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Union (BAMCU) allows us to link local smallholder farmers producers to our regional ecosystems’’.
About BAMBU
The Botswana Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Union (BAMCU) is the leading apex body representing agricultural cooperative societies in Botswana, dedicated to empowering farmers through structured aggregation, collective marketing, and commercial capacity building.