WINDHOEK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Namibia's state-owned meat processing and advertising and marketing ag
WINDHOEK, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Namibia’s state-owned meat processing and advertising and marketing agency Meatco mentioned on Friday it expects to slaughter 66% much less meat in 2020 because of a scarcity of cattle following a devastating drought in 2019 that decimated herds.
Agriculture contributes about 5% to Namibia’s economic system however farming together with cattle elevating contributes to almost two-thirds of the inhabitants’s revenue.
“In the course of the 2019 monetary yr we slaughtered over 116,000 head of cattle. 2020 has been a troublesome yr, as a result of by the top of the 2020/21 monetary yr we’d probably solely have slaughtered roughly 39,000 head of cattle,” Meatco Chairperson Johnnie Hamman mentioned.
The southern African desert nation confronted a attainable famine in 2019 after dam ranges fell beneath 20%, a drop officers blamed on local weather change and the worst drought in virtually a century that additionally hit South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Namibia is the second African nation after South Africa to satisfy China’s stringent import circumstances for bone-in beef final yr and have become the primary African nation to export purple meat to the USA.
The arid southern African nation, recognized for free-range, hormone-free beef, was set to export 860 tonnes of assorted beef cuts in 2020 to the USA, rising to five,000 tonnes by 2025.
(Reporting by Nyasha Nyaungwa Enhancing by Tanisha Heiberg Enhancing by Marguerita Choy)
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