Category: Agriculture
Fransfontein Community Garden Project Is Thriving
By: Juliana Iikela The parliamentary standing committee on natural resources which recently paid a follow-up visit to the Fransfontein Community Garden in the Kunene region has found that the garden is flourishing. The N$12.3 million Green Climate Fund (GCF) funded…
Namibia Should Invest In Crops, Says Agronomic Board
Juliana Iikela Namibia needs to invest more in more crop agriculture in the next five years, said Namibia Agronomic (NAB) Board CEO Fidelis Mwazi on Wednesday. Dr Mwazi made these remarks as the NAB hosted anNational Agronomy…
Government Awaits Green Scheme Investors …..seven months later
By:Hertha Ekandjo Nearly eight months after the agriculture ministry said that it would offer the country’s 11 green schemes to local and foreign investors to lease and operate, there appears to have been no takers yet. The country’s government-run green…
Schlettwein Warns of Dashed Hopes Without Water Supply
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus Socio-economic development, food security, and the massive potential of agriculture that are preached every day will not be achieved if the country does not guarantee water security. This is the warning of the minister of agriculture, water and…
Little Room for Growth in Fish Production – Economists
By:Justicia Shipena Namibia is expected to see little real growth in fish production according to an agriculture report released by the financial analyst agency Simonis Storm. The report states that the value of fish exports decreased by 10.9% year on…
Nam Needs To Be less Dependent on Trans-Boundary Water
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus In the long run, Namibia should think of and implement water projects that will make the country less dependent on transboundary water, as Angola develops more infrastructures reducing water flow to Namibia. This was stated by…