The Otjombinde Constituency Councilor, Wenzel Kavaka, has called upon farmer associations and cooperatives to coordinate when organizing auctions.
Kavaka was speaking at a consultative meeting on the allocation of auction days at Tallismanus in Omaheke Region.
Namibia's livestock is recovering well following the devastating drought that ended in 2019.
A delegation led by Otjombinde Constituency Councilor Wenzel Kavaka and Omaheke Regional Governor Pijoo Nganate has resolved to provide residents of Otjiuapehuri with a borehole through the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform.
The Eastern Epukiro Farmers Association has set a new record by registering more than 980 cattle at their first auction this year in Epukiro Constituency.
In the past, the auction only attracted close to 300 animals on an auction day.
The Namibia Agricultural Union has described the year 2022 as having been a good one in terms of both livestock and crop production.
It says these good results give hope to farmers in the commercial sector to even do better next year.
Inadequate markets for livestock in the Northern Communal Areas still pose a serious challenge to farmers within the Red Line.
The Namibian National Farmers Union's Executive Officer, Kuniberth Shamathe, says weaner buyers are offering low prices to producers across the country.
The Northern Namibia Farmers Seed Growers Cooperative, within the Omahanene Crop Research Station in the Omusati Region, is advising crop farmers to use improved certified seeds for high yields in a short period of time as opposed to traditional ones.
The raging veld fires in the Hardap Region that destroyed large tracts of grazing land have finally been contained.
The fire started on resettlement farm Haribes and spread to other farms over the course of five days.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
A veld fire that had been raging in the ||Kharas Mountain area since last Friday has been extinguished and is no longer a threat.
Keetmanshoop Rural Constituency Councillor Gertjie Witbooi said this as he gave an update on the veld fire.
The villagers of Ghude in the Kavango East Region are surviving on wild fruits after elephants destroyed their crop fields during the 2021 harvesting season.
