Founder of Orevia Green Farm at Aminus, Kakunandunda Katuuo has emphasised that it is high time that young people take space in the agricultural sector, given its potential to create jobs and improve livelihoods.
 
Katuuo started a garden at their village following the outbreak of Covid-19, which today supplies vegetables to schools in the Omaheke Region and assists needy households.
 
“I'm one of the positive outcomes of the pandemic. I started farming when I realised that Namibia faces a high risk of food shortages. It was due to low local food production and high imports from neighbouring countries. So, Orevia Green Farm started on a three hundred square meters, and today we are on four hectares. Soon we will be expanding to six hectares.”

The project has five permanent workers and also accommodates interns from universities.

The 28-year-old said, with assistance from the government and GIZ, challenges have become minimal.
 
There are two boreholes at the site, which helps the project to produce at a large scale.
 
“I think 2026 has been the best so far. We are only into our sixth month, and we have been consistently supplying our market. Yes, we have a small problem of supplying our market or meeting the demand, but we have done exceptionally well, and we are constantly improving and upscaling our production, so we are good to go.”
 
 A student intern, Foibe Shindume, stated that the project offers them real practical work.
 
“Orevia Green Farm gives an opportunity to apply skills and also to learn what we were not told in school, as I didn't even know how to come up with things like this, but my team and I really tried.”