Meatco, the country’s largest meat processing and marketing entity, has set plans in motion to revive and turn its Okahandja factory into a fully-fledged value-addition hub, intending to increase efficiencies and produce more value-added products and ready-to-eat goods.
Namibia is looking to cut down on the growing import bill of vegetable oils, especially for the most commonly-consumed oils such as sunflower oil, palm oil, soybean oil, olive oil and canola oil.
The festive season is the best time of the year for everyone – not only is it the time to take a break from the pressures of the year, but it is also a time to spend time and create memories with your loved ones.
The rearing of poultry – be it chickens, quails, ducks, geese and turkeys – can be an exciting endeavour.
Small-scale young farmers, especially those in deep rural areas, will be some of the biggest beneficiaries of Agribank and Germany’s Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) Development Bank’s N$400 million concessional loan agreement.
The Namibian small livestock sector recorded positive growth during the third quarter of 2023, which saw sheep and goat meat industries posting favourable quarterly marketing figures in comparison to the third quarter of 2022.
In arid and semi-arid countries such as Namibia where water is a scarce resource, it is always advisable for farmers to engage in water conserving practices.
The Namibian Agronomic Board (NAB)’s regulatory work and continued strategic guidance to local farmers were recently further bolstered when the board was honoured and presented with the ISO 9001:2015 Standards and Global G.A.P certification.
To some, food self-sufficiency and food security may seem to be the same. However, these are two different phrases, with food self-sufficiency being an enabler of food security.
Getting personal transactions entangled with that of the business transaction is something most farmers and agripreneurs do, and it may come easy. However, this poses a risk to the business, and more importantly leads to lost opportunities in business growth.