While communal farmers in the north want to know when the vouchers for rip furrow land preparation will be available, what is the amount of land preparation subsidies this year and if seed, in particular mahangu, will be available through the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, the newly-formed Namibian Agriculture Programme Consortium 2 is going full-steam ahead, thanks to sponsorship by Kongalend Financial Services and Clusa. Close to 580,000 Namibians are now in need of immediate food aid and farmers are questioning whether N$ 555 million for food aid could not rather have been spent last year on massive implementation of CA. Helena Nangola from the Omusati region recorded a bumper harvest this season, applying CA methods.