Young people are being urged to take a leading role in transforming Namibia's agricultural sector and reducing the country's heavy reliance on food imports.
The call was made during the Youth Agricultural Co-operative establishment training at Swakopmund.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has highlighted the inclusive benefits of the just concluded 39th African Union Summit's agenda for African countries, with Namibia poised to play a pivotal leadership role in water management, food security and sanitation.
A farmer in the Kunene Region is urging individuals and organisations in the public and private sectors to invest in agricultural projects, highlighting farming's crucial role in food security and sustainable development.
Heavy rains and floodwaters are threatening food security for some farmers in the Mbilajwe and Batubaja areas in the Zambezi Region.
Some 68,000 people in the Kunene Region have benefited from the IREMA Livestock Revolving Scheme Project, designed to boost household income and food security.
Implemented in Fransfontein, Sesfontein, and Warmquelle, the six-year initiative, valued at N$164 million, wrapped up last year.
The Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform Minister Inge Zaamwani has launched a N$46-million food security and climate resilience grant in Otjiwarongo.
The Governor of the Erongo Region, Natalia |Goagoses, encouraged farmers at Farm Kunibes Number 88 to adopt modern, climate-smart farming practices to ensure optimal use of the land and strengthen food security in the region.
The Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform Deputy Minister says Namibia's agricultural future depends entirely on the hands, hearts and minds of young people.
She made these remarks at Oniipa in the Oshikoto region during the agri-youth engagement.
A once-thriving vegetable gardening project in the Kavango West Region has ground to a halt after its solar-powered water system was repeatedly stolen, transforming productive farmland into grazing land.
Drought conditions and the absence of locally produced fish feed continue to hamper the aquaculture sector.
A fish farmer in the Musanga area of the Zambezi Region is appealing to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Land Reform to reinstate the procurement of fish feed.
