Copea commercialisation offers plethora of opportunities: Hepute

Contributed by NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 22 AUG (NAMPA) – Cowpea beans, a drought-resistant crop, could be an answer to Namibia’s food crisis and overreliance on food imports, a preliminary study by the Namibia Agronomic Board (NAB) and Food and Agriculture Organisation [FOA] has said.
Cowpea has been identified as the chief crop that presents a plethora of opportunities waiting to be exploited, especially due to the precarious drought situation that Namibia finds itself, the two organisations’ preliminary Rapid Assessment of Cowp ...