Inadequate markets for livestock in the Northern Communal Areas still pose a serious challenge to farmers within the Red Line.
The Namibian National Farmers Union's Executive Officer, Kuniberth Shamathe, says weaner buyers are offering low prices to producers across the country.
The Northern Namibia Farmers Seed Growers Cooperative, within the Omahanene Crop Research Station in the Omusati Region, is advising crop farmers to use improved certified seeds for high yields in a short period of time as opposed to traditional ones.
The raging veld fires in the Hardap Region that destroyed large tracts of grazing land have finally been contained.
The fire started on resettlement farm Haribes and spread to other farms over the course of five days.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
A veld fire that had been raging in the ||Kharas Mountain area since last Friday has been extinguished and is no longer a threat.
Keetmanshoop Rural Constituency Councillor Gertjie Witbooi said this as he gave an update on the veld fire.
The villagers of Ghude in the Kavango East Region are surviving on wild fruits after elephants destroyed their crop fields during the 2021 harvesting season.
A committee member of the Eiseb Farmers Association, Zambia Kavari, has called on fellow farmers to work hard and improve the quality of livestock.
Farmers in the Hardap Region have been battling a veld fire that broke out at the Haribes resettlement farm on Monday.
Both Hardap Governor Salomon April and Hardap Region Council Chairperson Gershon Dausab were at the scene of the fire to help put it out.
The Agricultural Bank of Namibia (Agribank) and the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) relating to the co-financing of controlled-environment agriculture activities in Namibia.
Namwater has completed the construction of the water canal at a cost of N$93.5 million.
The construction of a 5.8-kilometer canal, which stretches from Omahenene to Olushandja in the Omusati Region, commenced in February last year.
Police in the Zambezi Region is urging farmers to brand and tag their cattle to easily identify and recover them when they are stolen.
The warning comes after a suspect was intercepted while attempting to cross into Zambia with five herds of cattle.
