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Africa-Press<\/a> – Namibia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Namibia has started implementing the Dry Land Crop Production Program in ten crop-growing regions of the country to improve productivity, a senior government official said Monday.<\/p>\n

Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform spokesperson Jona Musheko said the program is aimed at enhancing crop production and boosting yields amid a number of natural disasters.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, an average of 40,000 farming households benefited from subsidized plowing, planting and weeding services, as well as agricultural inputs such as improved seed varieties, fertilizers on annual basis through this program,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Musheko said the program is deliberately targeting youths to improve their participation in the sector and aims to mitigate against low and variable rainfall, thereby creating climate resilience to farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. Namibia has started implementing the Dry Land Crop Production Program in ten crop-growing regions of the country to improve productivity, a senior government official said Monday. Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform spokesperson Jona Musheko said the program is aimed at enhancing crop production and boosting yields amid a number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,16],"tags":[234,236,1062,233,1061],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-implements","tag-namibia","tag-production"],"yoast_head":"\nNamibia implements dry land crop production program - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Namibia has started implementing the Dry Land Crop Production Program in ten crop-growing regions of the country to impr ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Namibia implements dry land crop production program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Namibia has started implementing the Dry Land Crop Production Program in ten crop-growing regions of the country to impr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-14T11:32:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-14T12:45:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/09\/img-6140992319296.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"531\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Namibia implements dry land crop production program\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-14T11:32:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-14T12:45:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program\"},\"wordCount\":128,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/09\/img-6140992319296.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"implements\",\"namibia\",\"production\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/namibia-implements-dry-land-crop-production-program\",\"name\":\"Namibia implements dry land crop production program - 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