The women underwent five days of learning how to manufacture cleaning chemicals, offered by the authority's trainer, Widzane Mooketsi.
LEA Head of Corporate Affairs and Market Access Boikhutso Kgomanyane said the five-day training was part of the training they have been offering small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs.
"All the business management training was held virtually due to COVID-19," he said.
The authority has over the past years provided training to SMMEs, which included sales and marketing, record keeping, business planning, financial literacy, entrepreneurship training to mention but a few.
"There will be more training throughout the year and people should expect more of the technical ones as we have realised that there is interest from the public," she said, adding that by the end of this financial year, the authority would have trained 1,388 people on business management courses.
As part of the incubation transformation strategy, LEA has been setting up productive land banks and primary infrastructure across the country to alleviate project start-up costs and other challenges incubation graduates and other potential entrepreneurs face as they seek to engage in agribusiness.
These include the Glen Valley production and training facilities, Dikabeya Horticulture Expansion Project and the Ghanzi Small Stock Commercialisation Incubator.
Glen Valley sits on 13 hectares of land in Gaborone’s northern outskirts while Dikabeya is located 20 kilometres north of Palapye with five hectares of open field and one hectare for protected cultivation.
Meanwhile, LEA recently graduated 14 enterprises that completed the nine-month incubation training at Glen Valley Incubator. The graduates were trained on open field production for crops such as cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce and broccoli.
LEA has been offering practical and technical training to equip trainees with skills that will enable both aspiring and existing enterprises to manage sustainable and commercially viable ventures on their own.
