OKASHANA: Director of Land Reform in the Ministry of Agriculture Water and Land Reform (MAWLR), Petrus Nangolo has called on farmers on resettled land to be productive to avoid it being withdrawn. Nangolo made the call during a regional consultative meeting to review the resettlement criteria under the resettlement policy of 2023 to 2033 at...
December 25, 2024
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Resettled farmers in Erongo push hard to become commercial
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources says the majority of resettled farmers in the Omaruru and Karibib areas are putting in extra effort to become commercial despite water problems. The committee visited about 10 farmers resettled by the government in the Erongo Region to assess their success and challenges. Most resettlement farms visited at...
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Over 571 resettled farms, no tracking of progress
Since 1990, the government, through its land reform programme under the lands ministry, has acquired 571 farms, but it is not clear how well or badly resettled farmers are faring, nor the income they can generate from their farming activities. These are part of the findings by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in...