Farmers Forum

Agronomic pests are among the most detrimental hindrances to crop farmers and can result in significant losses.

The prolonged dry spell in Namibia has put farmers under pressure to ensure that their animals survive and make it into the next rainy season.

The United Nations (UN) Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), through the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) representative and in response to government appeal last week unveiled N$10 million funding for a drought mitigation project.

OTJIWARONGO - Land Reform minister Utoni Nujoma has called on resettled farmers in the Otjozondjupa region to start farming productively, thereby graduating to become successful commercial farmers.

A team from the European Union (EU) last week Tuesday conducted a residue and meat hygiene audit on Meatco Namibia,   as an EU export abattoir.

Namibia Dairy Producers Association (DPA) says the recent closing of the Hardap Dam sluices close to Mariental in the Hardap region will put the country’s dairy industry, already faced by the concurrent drought, on the verge of collapse.

Namibian Livestock Producers’ Organisation chairperson Thinus Pretorius says despite good rains received in most parts of the country, more rain is still needed to break the current drought that has ravaged the country for the past seven years.

WINDHOEK – Dassies training has invited farmers to enroll their farmworkers for the first farmworker training camp which will be held at Farm Dassiesfontein, some 30 kilometers from Mariental on the road to Maltahöhe in the Hardap region.  

WINDHOEK – The prices of weaner calf during the third quarter of 2019/20 financial year dropped by 20.2% to N$23.46 per kilogram, this is according to Bank of Namibia (BoN) governor Ipumbu Shiimi.

WINDHOEK – Namibia is among the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries expected to receive high rainfall in the second half of the season from now until March.