President Hifikepunye Pohamba last Friday declared a national emergency due to the devastating drought that has already killed 4 000 large and small stock.

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The Namibian Ministry of Trade and Industry has tightened control measures around the importation of poultry products by introducing import permits.

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MEATCO is facing several challenges and the most important decision-makers to keep Namibia's meat industry relevant, are the farmers. This was the message of Meatco's CEO Adv Vekuii Rukoro at the Meatco Braai, at Stampriet.

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THE government received strong opposition from farmers during its consultation meetings on the proposed bill on the new ownership of Meatco this week.

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THE government received strong opposition from farmers during its consultation meetings on the proposed bill on the new ownership of Meatco this week.

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A TEAM of ASDA, Wal-Mart's British subsidiary, is on its way to Namibia to secure an suppliers agreement with Meatco for local beef.

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President Hifikepunye Pohamba appealed to Namibian Poultry Industries (NPI) to take advantage of the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) market of 500 million people to sell its chicken.

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Namib Poultry Industries (NPI) have opened their new poultry facility in the company of the country’s President Hifikepunye Pohamba.

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Namibia’s pig producers association is calling on farmers to register with the Meat Board and join in a pork promotion scheme that aims to lobby for pork import restrictions to benefit domestic industry, allAfrica reports. Pig farming has an immense growth potential in Namibia, and farmers stand to benefit a great deal from the introduction of a Pork Market Share Promotion Scheme on October 1. Flip de Villiers, chairman of the Pig Producers' Association, called on farmers to take part in this new scheme and register with the Meat Board of Namibia.

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Namibian beef exports dropped significantly in the first half of 2012 compared to the first six months of 2012.

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Meatco made good recovery from losses recorded in the previous financial year to post N$100 million in profits after tax during the 2011/12 financial year.

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The Namib Poultry Industry (NPI) company rounded off its new product launches with Namchicken, which joins the earlier released CountryChoice chicken and Realgood chicken.

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Jason Kasuto A LEGAL tussle is looming between the Meat Board and a consultancy, Monasa, after the Meat Board terminated its contract and refused to pay for a report already submitted.

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Namibia Poultry Industries (NPI) is gearing itself to supply the entire Namibian market by the end of May, the company said.

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Namibia Poultry Industries (NPI) is gearing itself to to supply the entire Namibian market by the end of May, the company has commented.

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF) is waiting for laboratory results to confirm the Foot and Mouth Disease(FMD) status of a buffalo that was killed over the weekend at Otjituuo, south of the veterinary red line.

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A total of 96 413 cattle were marketed, of which 41 per cent were marketed locally during the third quarter of last year.

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A multi-million dollar project now under construction by Namib Poultry Industries is aimed at making the whole Namibian market self-sufficient.

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There have been two further outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Nambia.

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There has been one outbreak of FMD reported to the OIE.

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There has been one outbreak of FMD reported to the OIE.

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96,413 cattle found their way to market during the last quarter, nearly two per cent more than the previous one.

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Livestock and crop farming are expected to drive growth of 1.2 per cent in the agriculture and forestry industry next year, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) has said.

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The outbreak occurred on the 26/11/11, at a farm in Masikili Village, Caprivi.

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Namibian beef producers are up in arms over a government plan to take a 30% stake in the country’s largest beef processor and exporter, Meatco. Farmers said previous statements indicated government would leave the producers alone.

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A comprehensive Smart™ hatchery has been commissioned from Pas Reform by Namib Poultry Industries, for an ambitious new project that aims to satisfy Namibia’s total demand for poultry and poultry meat products by mid 2012.

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THIS is an open letter to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Andrew Ndishishi.

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Namib Poultry Industries, which began construction in April of a multi-million dollar poultry facility, aims to produce 250,000 chickens per week, enough to “serve the whole Namibian market” once it reaches full production in mid-2012.

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The Mashare Agricultural Development Centre is a government-run agricultural institute that farms with goats, sheep and cattle, as well as carrying out small-scale crop production.

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Namibia will become independent in broiler processing in the next few years and the potential is there to become a net exporter to Angola, according to The Southern Times.

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THE 'banned' substance discovered at Meatco's feedlot by European Union (EU) inspectors last week "was not used in the manner in which it should have been used".

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A 12-member business delegation and members of the Angolan Industrial Association (AIA) visited Namibia during the second week of November. The delegation was headed by Mr. Areias, a prominent business personality in Angola and well known in fishing circles in Namibia. The delegation consisted of the president of the Salt Producers of Angola and provincial ministerial representatives of Benguela, Namibe and Luanda. The AIA delegation came to Namibia on invitation of Namgonell, a company that focuses on the creation of B2B (business-to-business) interchange between the Namibian and Angolan business counterparts.

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Namib Poultry is in the process of setting up a poultry project between Okahandja and Windhoek to produce chickens for the Namibian market.

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Namib Poultry, a unit of Namib Mills, Namibia's biggest miller, plans to invest 500 million Namibian dollars (US$72 million) to build a poultry plant near the capital, Windhoek.

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Namibia confirmed 29 new cases of swine flu following an outbreak of the virus in the capital, Windhoek, and the northern Omusati Region, Health Minister Richard Kamwi said.

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Nearly 1,000 school children were feared to have swine flu or A H1N1 influenza in Namibia, the health ministry said Wednesday. "A total of 970 learners from two schools, one in the capital Windhoek and one in north-central Namibia had been seen having symptoms of flu-like illness," Health Minister Richard Kamwi told parliament.

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Livestock farmers in the Omahake Region are finding the going tough in selling their animals profitably, a misery they squarely blame on, among others, Meatco’s monopoly of the beef industry. That, plus Government’s reduced assistance in providing subsidies to struggling farmers to stimulate profitable farming, makes contemporary farming in Namibia a mission almost impossible.

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THE SMEs (small and medium enterprises) sector is a significant employer the world over, while contributing handsomely to the GDP of many countries.

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Citing Namibian news agency Nampa, Bernama reports that Namib Poultry Industries General Manager (GM), Gys White said the aim of the project is to make Namibia self-sufficient in the supply of chickens. The project will commence with production in November next year.

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Namibia would give the last push to have Namibian beef in the US market at the AGOA Forum in Washington DC this week. The country also wants the US to consider Walvis Bay port as one of the AGOA designated ports of origin for goods coming from land-locked countries neighbouring Namibia. Minister of Trade and Industry, Hage Geingob, accompanied by representatives of the Meat Board and the Agricultural Trade Forum, as well as officials from the ministries of agriculture and fisheries, left for Washington last week.

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Namibia was commended recently by Jacques Diouf, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (F.A.O.), for acting swiftly and effectively to halt the spread of Rift Valley Fever (R.V.F.) in the country during recent outbreaks. R.V.F. is a disease carried by mosquitoes after heavy rains and flooding and is characterized by high rates of abortion and neonatal mortality primarily in sheep, goats and cattle.

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Speaking at a meeting in the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry in Windhoek, Diouf praised the Namibian institutions involved. "Their alertness and prompt reaction prevented outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever in May 2010 from spreading, with potentially devastating consequences on lives, livelihoods and food security," Mr Diouf said.

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MEAT from free-ranging cattle in Namibia will receive international attention during a new branding campaign by retail giant Woolworths South Africa as the company increases its focus to more sustainable and organic food production.

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In 1991 the Government of Namibia convened a Consultative Land Conference which affected people differently as they came with differing expectations. Among the many statements and position papers presented two particularly come to mind. One was by Katuutire Kaura, Member of Parliament on the opposition benches. He said while communal farmers are battling with landlessness, they are the best farmers because each time commercial farmers want to replenish their livestock they rely on communal farmers.

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Meatco has raised the industry benchmark with its free-range beef products and will together with its producers, receive global approval during a Woolworths Search for Good Food advertising campaign. The campaign is to be screened on DStv and features Meatco as the exclusive supplier of hormone-free beef to Woolworths South Africa.

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Namibia imposed a 15 percent levy on exports of live sheep to neighboring South Africa and said it may double the tax to promote local slaughtering and processing of the animals. The rate may increase to 30 percent “depending on the trend of exports,” Mbeuta Ua-Ndjarakana, permanent secretary in the Information Ministry, said in an e-mailed statement late yesterday from Windhoek, the capital.

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Members of the Namibian Police Stock Theft Unit yesterday rushed to the resettlement farm Aro-vlei, close to Oamites, to identify cattle and small stock that belong to a Lebanese businessman farming adjacent to the communal area on farm Kamwas. Two weeks ago, police found two cattle hides at one of the houses at Arovlei and apprehended a farm worker, who is now in jail awaiting trial. No meat was recovered, but police are hard at work to get to the bottom of the case.

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NAMIBIA’S largest meat company and exporter of meat has recorded a net loss of N$17,9 million for the past year, which ended on January 31, due to the impact of the global economic crisis during 2009, which caused meat consumption to drop worldwide.

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The Namibia Organic Association (NOA) was launched at the just ended 2010 Tourism Expo last week. "We want to provide leadership in organic farming and encourage farmers to incorporate organic practices in their farming methods," the chairperson of the association, Manjo Smith, said.

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REDUCING the number of cattle during droughts could curb over-grazing, land degradation and desertification, the Ministry of Environment and some conservation organisations are advising farmers. This could be done by selling cattle to Meatco for slaughtering while they are still in reasonable condition, instead of letting them starve to death. This would earn farmers money to buy fodder to help their remaining livestock survive the drought.

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Namibia’s Meatco Manager for corporate communications, Vicky Raimond-Muranda, announced that the slaughtering of cattle and sheep from the Karas and Hardap regions resumed on Monday 24 May 2010. This follows a notification by the Namibian veterinary authorities of an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in the country. Namibian veterinarians confirmed cases of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) on 6 farms in the Hardap and one in the Karas regions of southern Namibia, up four from the week before. There is no evidence the outbreak originated in South Africa.

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Namibia’s Meatco Manager for corporate communications, Vicky Raimond-Muranda, announced that the slaughtering of cattle and sheep from the Karas and Hardap regions resumed on Monday 24 May 2010. This follows a notification by the Namibian veterinary authorities of an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in the country.

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THE Agricultural Training Centre Krumhuk opened its doors one and a half years ago. Currently there are 12 first-year students and 12 second-year students at the centre. The students are taught mainly the practical aspects of agriculture and theory is used to enhance the course.

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Beef exporters together with Government have accelerated the pursuit of alternative markets for beef exports, other than the European Union. Both government and exporters are busy with the search as there is diminishing hope of reaching a favourable position on European Partnership Agreement.

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MORE upcoming commercial and communal farmers are making use of the public lectures offered by a local agricultural co-operative to learn more about practical farming methods. The 20th Agra public lecture in Windhoek recently had a large turnout.

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The overturning of a government BAN on labour broking by the Namibian Supreme Court was welcomed by interest groups in South Africa, which have been urging their government to regulate, rather than ban, the practice

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Developing value-added services and sectors in addition to its existing primary sectors is key for Namibia’s growth, Namibian High Commission in South Africa commercial counsellor Bonaventura Hinda emphasised during an intra-Africa business investment event on Thursday.

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Violence shook the farm Riksburg in the Karibib district on Saturday morning when a small group of unidentified men assaulted and seriously injured an old lady and her housekeeper before firing several shots at the farmworkers.

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Good news for many farmers in Namibia, yet for many it is to little to late as the Agricultural Bank of Namibia (Agribank) reduced its monthly compounded interest rates with effect from November 1, 2009.

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Violence shook the farm Riksburg in the Karibib district on Saturday morning when a small group of unidentified men assaulted and seriously injured an old lady and her housekeeper before firing several shots at the farmworkers.

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