Boipelo Precious Laetsang

Boipelo Laetsang is a young poultry farmer based in Kanye, the southern district of Botswana. She is the secretary general of Menoms Poultry Association whose mandate is to produce, process, sell chicken meat, and protect poultry farmers. Boipelo holds a degree in Computer Science: Software Engineering, and has undertaken a number of professional courses including IT service management, enterprise risk management, poultry production, as well as entrepreneurship. Having worked as a system analyst for seven years, she has an appreciation of business processes and the role IT can play in the enhancement of these processes. Boipelo embarked on her poultry farming journey years back, and her interest and driving motivation is to merge agriculture and technology, and to derive maximum efficiency from agricultural processes through the use of IT. Upon returning home, she will educate and motivate other farmers on the use of technology in their farming activities.