Farmers have managed to contain a veld fire that broke out on Saturday afternoon in the Hardap Region at farm Kachas, situated about 15 kilometers west of Mariental. 

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.

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.

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.

The Namibia National Farmers Union, NNFU constitution remains unchanged after members reviewed it at a five day workshop held at Otjiwarongo. 

NNFU is a national federation of regional farmer's unions established in 1992 to serve as a mouthpiece for Namibian farmers.

Onjose Farmers Cooperative in the Omaheke Region has set up a new facility to provide livestock supplements and vaccines to farmers.

The cooperative provides agricultural training opportunities to farmers as well as organizing market days for them.

Recent veld fires in the ||Kharas Mountain areas have destroyed an estimated 160 thousand hectares of grazing land, spread over 19 farms.

This was revealed in an assessment of damages report compiled by the ||Kharas Regional Council.

A member of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) in the National Assembly is calling for a subsidy to support farmers to produce more food for the country and for their own household consumption.

The Minister of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism has urged farmers at Otjimboyo Conservancy in Erongo's Dâures Constituency to diversify production systems and adapt to climate change.

Farmers and residents of Amarika village in Otamanzi constituency, Omusati Region, still depend on hand-dug wells that have saline water.

The traditional water sources in the area,  villagers say, do not produce sufficient water for both humans and livestock.