Frumentum Farming in Namibia a family success thanks to Massey Ferguson Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 July 2023: Rene de Schmid has been familiar with Massey Ferguson tractors since his childhood. “I grew up with them on the farm and remember vividly that our Massey tractors were hardly in the workshop,” he says. Rene grew up ...

An eight-member delegation from the National Assembly of Namibia on the Standing Committee of Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources are in Ghana for a five-day study visit to Ghana’s Parliament.  The delegation would share ideas, and get oversight knowledge with their Ghanaian counterparts, Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Oil and Gas, Agriculture, and Natural ...

ETG Logistics (ETGL), the logistics and distribution vertical of Export Trading Group, and the JSE–listed KAL Group have entered a strategic partnership to provide local producers with an extended range of versatile, compact, and cost-effective tractors and automotive products to improve efficiencies on farms. Accordingly, KAL Group’s Agrimark branches in the Western Cape will stock ...

High-level discussions come hard on the heels of South Africa hosting the African Free Trade and Investment conference in Cape Town The South African and Namibian fruit export sectors have for many years argued that the development of port infrastructure in Namibia and regular shipping opportunities from those ports would go a long way to ...

Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, so its agriculture is largely dependent on groundwater. Despite high temperatures and scarcity of water, Namibian farmers have successfully raised cattle for decades. As of November 2020, around 70% of the country’s population derives income directly or indirectly from agriculture, and the industry is also one of ...

Matthew Dlamini The recent good rains in the country and the resurgence of green scheme projects mean the country is heading towards self-sufficiency in white corn.  This was stated by Calle Schlettwein, Minister for Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, at the Annual Staff and Stakeholders’ Address held in Windhoek yesterday, with hopes that this will ...

The USDA plans to bring some of the country’s agricultural projects under private control and increase production.  Applications for Ndonga Linena, Uvhungu Vhungu, Orange River Irrigation Program and Uvhungu Vhungu Dairy Project are currently under review and successful bidders will be announced shortly.  “As this process unfolded, the ministry, with public support, brought into production ...