Windhoek
Lemphy Katuuo from the Okankolo constituency, Oshikoto Region, is an outstanding Conservation Agriculture (CA) farmer with 17 hectares under rip furrowing.
Katuuo is also dedicated to the Namibian Conservation Agricultural Project training her neighbours and mobilising farmers in her area for rip furrow land preparation services. She herself has an animal-drawn rip furrower which she is using to complement land preparation done by tractors. She produces dry-land crops for her household and for the market. Katuuo is also a livestock farmer and is producing supplement fodder on her land.
She is one of many exceptional and dedicated women farmers across Namibia’s rural northern regions, who are all hard at work producing crops under CA and training their neighbours. Another extraordinary woman is Hilaria Iyanga, who is producing vegetables in a container -cultivation micro drip system on the outskirts of Ondangwa and markets the produce at the open market in town. She is a prime example that anything is possible in peri-urban horticulture – dedication, hard work and a business mind set has made it possible for Iyanga to create, from scratch, a steady and reliable monthly income from horticulture production.