Namibia records decline in 2020 cattle marketing

Contributed by NAMPA.

ONDANGWA, 09 APR (NAMPA) – Namibia in 2020 marketed 247 883 cattle, compared to 467 418 in 2019, a decline of 47 per cent due to the effects of drought.
This was revealed by the Meat Board of Namibia’s Chief Marketing Officer, Desmond Cloete, at a seminar for the Northern Communal (NCA) at Ondangwa in the Oshana region on Friday.
He said with regards to the formal market in the NCA, 6 586 cattle were slaughtered between 2018 and 2020, while 6 118 cattle were auctioned in the same period plus 3 6 ...