Tag: Namibia
Meat Board approves additional condition to Sheep Marketing Scheme
The Meat Board, at its latest board meeting a fortnight ago approved an additional condition to the sheep marketing scheme quotas.
In a statement the...
Bird movement ban still in place
The agriculture ministry announced last week that the ban on the movement of birds and bird products which came into effect last month due...
There’s a market niche for pig farming
Pig farming is one sector that has not been affected by the export drama that has engulfed the Namibia meat industry over the last...
Weaner exports to South Africa double
The export of weaners to South Africa has almost doubled since the new and more relaxed import regulations from the neighbouring country came into...
Okapuka feedlot reopens for now
In the aftermath of the crippling drought, the Meat Corporation of Namibia has been left with little choice but to temporarily reopen its flagship...
Cost of fodder bites into dairy production
The on going drought and low rainfall has caused the shortages on fodder availability, thus affecting dairy production in Namibia, the Managing Director of...
Food prices increase by 12,4% survey ranks Katima Mulilo most expensive
The Windhoek-based First Capital Food Price Index increased from 98,6 in September 2015 to 111 in September 2016, indicating that the price of food...
Transform subsistence agriculture, Venaani urges Govt
DTA of Namibia president McHenry Venaani says government has failed to modernise agriculture to create jobs and provide food security.
Speaking at the opening of...
Beef farmers rejoice as Okapuka reopens
An almost two month-long spat between Meatco and the Directorate of Veterinary Services (DVS), in which emotions sometimes reached boiling point, over the closure...
Export of weaners to commence
Namibian farmers can now start exporting weaners in large quantities to neighbouring South Africa (SA) again after some great progress was made in permit...
