Agriculture

School learners doing agriculture as a subject in the Otjozondjupa region, recently benefited from a free animal course on judging animals.

As an agripreneur or farmer, you are concerned about increasing your livestock count, or your crop field size. You want to make sure your land has the grazing capacity, that you have met the livestock vaccination targets and have made sure your employees are paid and you can feed your family. 

Agriculture is concerned with rearing animals and the cultivation of crops, whilst an ecosystem simply refers to a community of living organisms, such as plants and animals, together with the non-living components, such as the air and soils, interacting with each other in their environment. 

One of the biggest mistakes you can ever make as a farmer is being far away from your animals or produce for too long. 

Pelson Hoveka, also known as ‘Pelle’ in farming circles, has been around the block a few times despite his age. His love for farming has seen him taking his trade to different places across Namibia over the years.

In these tough economic times, farmers are called upon to be innovative in their approach to farming and are also expected to save at all cost in the interest of their farming enterprises. Sadly, farmers often miss out on feasible opportunities to save much needed dollars due to the discard of traditional farming knowledge.

Farmers in the Eiseb area of the Omaheke region, which boost one of the highest concentrations of poisonous plants, such as the gifblaar, have started their annual migration of livestock to safe areas.

Ndasilohenda Katangolo-Nakashwa is the Feedmaster Female Farmer of the Year in the poultry division. 

Bush encroachment can simply be defined as the dominant increase in density of woody plant species on a land area. These species can dominate in their native habitats or invade other land areas displacing other plant species, resulting in loss of biodiversity and an imbalanced vegetation type. 

Most startup farmers are faced with one critical decision; deciding what mode of farming to take. If you thought deciding on this is as easy as milking a cow, think again. Lets face it; farming is a highly glamourised sector. It has now become the ‘in-thing’ and those who are lucky to have made it further than others waste no time reminding us of such.