Agriculture

Agribank, the country’s leading agricultural financial lender, is placing special emphasis on small-scale remote farmers through its latest initiative Branch-on-Wheels, which takes its services closer to prospective and existing clients.

Farmers in Namibia face numerous challenges, including climate change. 

For a long time, Namibia has experienced missing links in the crop value chain such as value addition for fruits and vegetables and other local agricultural products. 

The Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) and August 26 Holdings recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will see both State-owned entities collaborating in areas of food production and logistics. 

The Namibian meat sector, which is acclaimed worldwide for its premium health standards and superiority, has once again received a massive boost after the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) endorsed the country’s status as a bovine-tuberculosis free zone.

It is again ploughing season; some areas have received great showers, and others have received moderate rain. During this time, most poultry farmers move their free-range chickens into coops so that they do not destroy their fields. 

POULTRY diseases have significant effects on both the flock and the farmer.

A cow-calf producer derives their primary income from the number of calves born into the herd each year, and one of the major limiting factors to this endeavour is bull breeding soundness or simply put, its lack of fertility.

The Namibian Police in the Zambezi region have advised the country’s leading meat-processing and marketing entity Meatco to urgently beef up its security at the Kopano Quarantine Camp, where stock theft has become rampant.