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Chicken for beef

1 week ago - 19 May 2019 | Agriculture

Palmwag • Nina Cerezo Gabes /Goagoseb sits on his shady veranda. In the surrounding garden, cacti and other plants are blooming, a window of his stone house behind him is open. Everything looks tidy, fresh...

Rooilyn groet stadig maar seker

2 weeks ago - 12 May 2019 | Agriculture

Windhoek • Ellanie SmitAs deel van die implementering van die tweede nasionale grondberaad se resolusies, beplan die ministerie van landbou om binne die huidige boekjaar die proses te begin om geleidelik die veeartsenykordonheining (VCF), of...

Feeding the nation

3 weeks ago - 05 May 2019 | Agriculture

Swakopmund • Otis Finck The Agro farming industry could possibly rid the country of unemployment within the next five to ten years.So says Ranjit Patil, the head agronomist at Farm Shalom, a smallholding around...

In die boorde van ’n granaatboer

3 weeks ago - 05 May 2019 | Agriculture

Windhoek • Yolanda Nel In die suide van Namibië is 17 000 bome vier jaar gelede geplant en as die vrugte daarvan oopgebreek word, word jy beloon met die soet pêrels van die granaat.Maar...

‘Boer of gee die grond terug’

2 months ago - 24 March 2019 | Agriculture

Mangetti • Ileni Nandjato Die hoofveearts van die Noordweste, dr. Kennedy Shoombe, meen Mangetti-landboukundiges moet ophou om hulself boere te noem, en eerder dierewagters vir troues en begrafnisse.“As jy nie kan boer nie, gee die...

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Bush encroached land to be reduced

6 months ago - 19 November 2018 | Agriculture

Namibia aims to reduce bush encroachment on 1.9 million hectares of land within the next two decades. According to environment minister Pohamba Shifeta, this is...

Chamber of Agriculture on the cards

7 months ago - 22 October 2018 | Agriculture

During several congresses held by the agricultural sector recently, it became clear that there is a policy difference between the agriculture sector and government on...

LPO wants testing halt

7 months ago - 15 October 2018 | Agriculture

Ellanie Smit - The Livestock Producers Organisation (LPO) wants Namibia to declare itself free from tuberculosis and Brucellosis so that farmers are not submitted to...

Green gardens for life

8 months ago - 10 September 2018 | Agriculture

About 330 000 learners are fed through the national school feeding progam while school gardens serve as a supplement to instil the culture of gardening...

Namibia can eradicate poverty – WFP

8 months ago - 03 September 2018 | Agriculture

Jemima Beukes – In June this year, the World Poverty Clock suggested that Namibia is off track reaching Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 which aims...

Mutton producers under pressure

8 months ago - 27 August 2018 | Agriculture

Ellanie Smit - The Meat Board of Namibia says that given government's efforts to industrialise and promote value addition, large price disparities are hampering progress...

Mutton producers under pressure

9 months ago - 20 August 2018 | Agriculture

Ellanie Smit - Sheep marketing in Namibia is confronted by various challenges that are putting the sector in jeopardy in terms of employment creation, retentions...

Taking hands to address food...

1 year - 08 March 2018 | Agriculture

A food security survey covering about 180 000 people in four lower-income neighbourhoods in Windhoek indicated that 77% of households were food insecure. In informal...

Groen goud uit die omgewing

2 years ago - 27 April 2017 | Agriculture

Mariana BaltSowat 120 km noordoos van Okahandja, in die Hochfeld-omgewing op die plaas Hartebeestteich-Süd, staan boordevol bome wat op die oog af glad nie...

Youth organise cactus clean up...

2 years ago - 06 April 2017 | Agriculture

Rosalia Joseph, a Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) intern at the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), recently...

Farmers vs GM

2 years ago - 23 March 2017 | Agriculture

The Namibia Scientific Society presents a talk on “Farmers’ rights vis-a vis genetically modified seeds in the context of Africa” by Elize Shakalela tonight at...

Zeranol found at Okapuka feedlot

2 years ago - 27 October 2016 | Agriculture

Traces of Zeranol were again detected in samples of cattle urine and feed tested at the Okapuka Feedlot, Chief Veterinary Officer Milton Maseke said earlier...