Botswana keen to recruit skilled manpower from Bangladesh

Botswana will recruit skilled manpower from Bangladesh for developing its aquaculture sector.
The visiting assistant minister of Botswana expressed his country's willingness to the Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque at his Bangladesh Secretariat office of receiving cooperation from Bangladeshi skilled persons for development of his country's aquaculture sector.   
"We are here mainly to see how the government of Bangladesh is working to alleviate poverty and making people self-reliant through sweet water fish farming and other ways. We like to replicate your model (aquaculture) to help alleviate our poverty. So we need your country's expertise to develop our fisheries sector," Assistant Minister for Presidential Affairs and Public Administration of Republic of Botswana Dikgang Phillip Makgalemele exclusively told the FE after meeting with the Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque at Bangladesh Secretariat Sunday.   
Asked when the two governments will sign an agreement in this regard, he said, "After returning back to my country I will share my experience about Bangladesh visit with our government especially with the ministry of foreign affairs to take initiative so that the two countries could move forward to start cooperation on different sectors that include trade, investment and exchange of skilled manpower".  
He said apart from cooperation in fisheries sector between the two countries, his country also needs Bangladesh's technical help for developing their agriculture sector.
He said that he will visit Bangladesh again to explore further possibilities for strengthening ties between the two countries.
The volume of trade between the two countries is now very insignificant, he said adding there is a big scope/ potential to increase bilateral trade and investment.  
"We are ready to provide them (Botswana) with experts and technical assistance for developing their aquaculture sector," Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque told the FE.
Director General of the Department of Fisheries Sayed Arif Azad and Honorary Consul of the People's Republic of Bangladesh in Botswana Dr Muzaffar M Hossain, among others, were present.
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