The water levels in the Cuvelai flood plains generally known as oshanas have risen due to heavy rains and all necessary precautionary measures need to be in place for possible floods.
This was revealed by the Deputy Director for Hydrology in the Agriculture, Water and Land Reform Pauline Mufeti.
About 48 fishermen employed by the Seaflower Corporation and the Seacope Corporation staged a demonstration protesting the alleged failure by management to pay their five months' outstanding salaries.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform has expressed concern about the theft and vandalism of equipment used to monitor floods at its satellite stations along the Cuvelai Basin in the Omusati and Ohangwena regions.
Amidst the labour unrest at NIMT, Executive Director Ralph Bussel stressed that the entity solely relies on the Namibia Training Authority and Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund, to support its operations.
The manager at the Musese Green Scheme in the Kavango West, Winfried Metzger, is optimistic about a good harvest this year, despite constant power outages.
Poor rainfall during the planting forced the project to rely on machinery for watering the maize almost on a daily basis.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform will set up dairy value chain development schemes as pilot projects in the Otjozondjupa and Omaheke regions.
These pilot projects are part of the measures recommended to save the dairy industry from collapse.
Small-scale farmers at Camp Five are devastated after the Otjiwarongo Municipality removed fencing from their garden and set it on fire.
Good rains received in Otjiwarongo over the past few days had farmers optimistic that in no time they would reap what they sowed.
The first integrated community-based system projects at Tsumkwe are said to be bearing fruit.
This is the garden project, set up by the United Nations World Food Programme in partnership with the African group of ambassadors and the Embassy of Brazil in 2021.
Namibia offers huge potential and opportunities to increase its agricultural productivity.
Namibia has still not recorded flood water in the Cuvelai catchment from southern Angola.
