The Omaheke region will host a first-of-its-kind Agricultural Food Conference-Expo (Agri-food ConfEX), which is intended on addressing food insecurity in the region, with emphasis on maximising the region’s potential as a formidable food hub for its people.
Determining whether it is best to confine your livestock to a closed space, such as a camp or kraal, is crucial for their survival.
Lambing and kidding season is an important time for a small ruminant operation. The survival of newborn lambs and kids is paramount to the economic viability of the farm. The new lamb or kid crop is the product of investments and decisions regarding genetics, and the next generation sets the stage for the future of the flock or herd.
It is high time the government revisit its resettlement programme, which is yet to fully emancipate landless people. The programme has done little to turn former landless people into fully fledged commercial farmers.
Before fruit, vegetables and other produce reach grocery store shelves, several sets of hands have touched the food that ends up on our kitchen tables.
Agriculture remains an important source of livelihood for the majority of Africans, but the sector is still very unproductive.
Ukaurua Kandee, an ardent stud farmer plying his trade in the communal area of Omaheke, has had to improvise and adjust his farming operations several times to bring the best out of his products.
The Okahatjipara Agri Shows and Auction Society intends to change the way agricultural shows are perceived by staging a weeklong farmers’ information session.
Back in the days – and to a lesser extent today still – agriculture was used as a punishment in schools. If a learner is deemed to have defied reasonable orders or instructions from a teacher, such learner was ‘sentenced’ to weed out the school’s miniature vegetable garden.
Unotjari Kavari has become a household name amongst small stock breeders in Namibia, with his unique blend of sheep breeds that have kept him a step ahead of many others in the industry.