Agriculture – Windhoek Observer

15 Dec

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sectors’ growth dips

ObserverNational NewsAgriculture, Forestry and Fishing sectors’ growth dips

Tujoromajo Kasuto The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA), reveals that the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sectors fell by 8.8 percent in the Third Quarter (Q3) of 2022, owing to a drop in the sub-sectors of livestock farming and fishing, which dropped by 18.9 percent and 3.1 percent in real value added, respectively. The NSA notes that the value added to the sector in the Third Quarter (Q3) of 2022 was estimated to be N$3.2 billion in nominal terms, representing 6.4 percent of the GDP (GDP). Namibia’s export earnings from commodities in the ‘Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing sectors totaled N$3.7 billion, while…

09 Jun

Namibia eyes to penetrate US market

ObserverNational NewsAgriculture, Education, Emerging Technologies, Infrastructure Development, Lucia Iipumbu, Mining and Oil and Gas upstream exploration, Namibia eyes to penetrate US market, Renewable Energy

Obrein Simasiku Namibia is working towards penetrating the United States (US) market by improving and expanding its export trade with America. Last year Namibia exported goods worth US$72,839 million, mainly diamonds, building stones, beef and flours among others. In the same vein, Namibia imported goods valued at US$168,966 million consisting mainly of meat and edible offal of fowls, pneumatic tyres and rubbers, and chemical products among others. This was revealed by the Minister of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT) Lucia Iipumbu, at the opening of a multi-sectoral business seminar attended hosted in conjunction with the Namibia Embassy in Washington DC. The…

29 Sep

5000 cattle infected with FMD, 150 dead in Zambezi

ObserverUncategorisedAgriculture, Calle Schlettwein, Water and Land Reform Minister

Eba Kandovazu A TOTAL 5000 cattle have been infected by the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the Zambezi region, since its detection in May this year. A total 150 cattle have died as a result, Agriculture, Water and Land Reform Minister, Calle Schlettwein, has announced. Schlettwein says this is despite the higher vaccination coverage in the infected herds, adding that infection rates remained high among the vaccinated cattle, which is an indication of the presence of a different FMD virus variant, which was confirmed to be a new FMD virus serotype O in August, the first time in the…

27 Oct

Agriculture and the ecosystems

ObserverUncategorisedAgriculture

Erastus Ngaruka Agriculture is concerned with rearing animals and the cultivation of crops whilst an ecosystem simply refers to a community of living organisms such as plants and animals together with the non-living components such as the air and soils, interacting with each other in their environment. The functions of this natural co-existence or ecosystem include the provision of essential services such as habitat, food, water, nutrient cycling, as well as cultural and recreational benefits to the land users. The ecosystem functioning is influenced by biodiversity, and this is managed by natural processes that maintain species abundance and distribution, and…

24 Apr

National silos empty

ObserverObserver MoneyAgriculture, Covid-19, water and land reform

Andrew Kathindi Agriculture, water and land reform executive director Percy Misika has revealed that the country’s food security has been compromised as national silos are empty. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed government’s preparedness for emergencies as there is currently insufficient food supply stored in the nation’s grain reserves. “The silos are empty but all is not lost because from our assessment from the current cropping season we are expecting 64,000 tons of white maize and 1,800 tons of pale millet. This would be over and above what is necessary for sustaining Namibian households for food security and which can be…