The Outjo Municipality is expanding the existing open market to accommodate more vendors who usually sell on the sidewalks.

Outjo is a town of more than six thousand inhabitants and is best known as the main gateway to one of Africa's largest national parks, Etosha.

The town receives an increasing number of visitors on a daily basis.

The sidewalks are, however, filled with vendors, making it difficult for them to serve their purpose of keeping people off the roads.

The University of Namibia's Ogongo Agricultural Campus has expanded its integrated fish and rice farming production for this year.

Head of the Department for Crop Production Dr. Simon Awala says the current flood waters could also be used to cultivate rice in the affected areas. 

Rice production at the campus has become a pioneering endeavor, attracting local farmers to the seldom-tapped farming activity in northern Namibia.

Rice is typically grown in bunded fields that are continuously flooded with water which helps it to grow until maturity.

Mashare Berries Farm in the Kavango East Region is expected to create more employment, following the expansion of its production with 40 more hectares.

For the past four years, the farm has been operating on 20 hectares piece of land.

The farm Project Manager Izak Grobbelaar says the farm expanded due to the demand for blueberries on the international market.

"We expanded from 20 hectares up to 60 hectares, so yes we are seeing positive trends on the farm, we are still in the process of trying to expand up to 200 hectares."