BUTHA, July 7 -- BUTHE - Prime Minister (PM) Dr. Moeketsi Majoro on Thursday launched 22 shearing sheds and several other developments under the Wool and Mohair Promotion Project (WAMPP). The launch was held in Qholaqhoe, Butha-Buthe where one of the shearing facilities was enacted.

It is a country-wide initiative with the goal to boost resilience to the adverse effects of climate change and economic shocks among poor, smallholder wool and mohair producers in the mountain and foothill regions of Lesotho. The project's development objectives are to: enable smallholder livestock producers to generate higher incomes and more sustainable livelihoods; and increase their ability to cope with and recover from natural shocks.

Speaking at the ev...