Windhoek
The Meat Board of Namibia has reallocated the remaining unused Norway quota to Meatco.
In an official communication to Meatco, the Meat Board said: “In accordance with the authorisation of the Meat Board, Meatco is granted an additional Norway export quota of 400 tonnes.”
“Meatco welcomes this reallocation as we are best positioned to extract the maximum benefit for Namibia and our livestock producers. By the end of June 2016, we already used 56 percent of the annual quota of 1 200 tonnes allocated to us. The additional quota will go a long way in supporting producer prices in this drought year,” stated the communication officer of Meatco, Undamuje Hambira.
“We are indebted to the Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development as well as the Meat Board of Namibia for granting Meatco and our producers this much-needed quota,” said Hambira.
“The allocation has come at just the right time for us to produce and ship the product before 24 October, so that the 2016 quota is used before the end of December. Meatco would like to reassure government, the Meat Board and all our stakeholders that we will fully utilise the quota allocated to Namibia in 2016,” he said.
“Meatco is aware of the potential implication if Namibia is not able to fully utilise the quota, as it places government in a difficult position to request a quota expansion in future if we cannot fill the current allocation of 1 600 tonnes,” Hambira said.