Farmers Forum

TSUMKWE - The harvesting and sale of devil’s claw in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy & Community Forest and the N#a Jaqna Conservancy & Community Forest offer on a yearly basis a substantial supplementary income for their members who undertake this activity.

WINDHOEK - Rural women have always been the driving force of subsistence economic production as de facto head of families while men work in the south, and never really owned the means of productions they worked for. 

WINDHOEK - Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco) last week announced that despite the prevailing drought, it has paid over N$175 million above parity to farmers.

WINDHOEK - Otjombinde farmers have breathed a collective sigh of relief as much-needed showers poured down earlier last week, after one of the driest Novembers in the past decade.

WINDHOEK - Namibia is among the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries expected to receive high rainfall, this is according the consensus forecast produced by the 23rd Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF) that met in Luanda, Angola, on 28-30 August.

Hansie van der Merwe is an exceptional horticulture farmer who has demonstrated at a commercial level that a farmer does not necessarily need huge tracts of land to farm cost-effectively.

WINDHOEK - Meatco hosted a strategic engagement between a delegation from the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) of South Africa and Meatco representatives.

Namibian agricultural journalist Deon Schlechter is participating in an information tour to Germany on the topic of  ‘The Future of Agriculture’ in connection with the AGRITECHNICA trade fair in Hannover. 

NEUDAMM CAMPUS - The University of Namibia Neudamm Campus recently hosted a lecturer from Dr Pungu Okito from Southern Utah University on aflatoxins.  

Broilers refer to hybrid, heavy fleshed meat birds that reach slaughter weight at 35 - 42 days. It is shocking to note that some consumers, particularly in the northern regions, dislike purchasing live broilers due to their white plumage colour.