Botswana Meat Commission

Its facilities consist of an integrated complex which includes an abattoir, canning, tanning and by-products plants.

On an international scale, it also owns marketing subsidiaries in European countries including the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands,[2] and cold storage facilities in the UK and South Africa.

[4] The BMC co-ordinates the production of beef from a national herd grazing on predominantly communal ranch lands which cover a large portion of the country.

The population of the cattle suffered a notable decline between the 1980s and the early 2000s, with numbers decreasing from roughly three million to about 1,700,000.

Chilled vacuum-packed beef cuts have a shelf-life of six months provided that the cold chain is maintained at a constant, specified minimum temperature.