Shifting Tastes: How Consumer Choices Are Fueling Lesotho’s High-Value Crop Revolution

A quiet agricultural revolution is taking shape in Lesotho’s agriculture landscape. The once-unfamiliar hues of purple cabbage, dark green baby marrow, and fresh cucumbers have now become everyday favourites on vendor stalls. These are no ordinary vegetables—they represent a growing category known as high-value crops, and their increasing popularity is being driven by changing consumer…

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Tsikoane Market Centre Underused and Overlooked

Despite its promise to boost local trade and farmer incomes, the Tsikoane Market Centre in Leribe stands as a stark symbol of exclusion and underutilisation, leaving many in the community disillusioned. Member of Parliament for Tsikoane, Malefetsane Mabote, raised urgent concerns about the facility’s failure to serve the broader population. He questioned both the limited…

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