Title:

APP-002380: Proposed integrated animal and crop farming and related infrastructure at Mubiza Village, Katima Mulilo, Namibia

Publication Year:
2020
Abstract:

The proponent is planning to embark on an Integrated Animal and Crop Farming initiative at Mubiza Village, which is some 30 km east of Katima Mlilo town, and is quite remote in the Zambezi Region of Namibia. Mwaka Integrated Farming CC has secured a 100-hectare piece of communal land to use for production of crop farming (agronomic) and crocodile rearing. The land of which is administered particularly by the local chiefs whose authority is governed by the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development of Namibia. The proposed area is communal and quite remote in the Zambezi Region of Namibia. However, the main activity on the farm will be integrated animal and crop farming. Animal farming will entail crocodile farming, which falls under the auspices of aquaculture . The crocodile hatchlings will be imported from Binga Crocodile Farm in Zimbabwe. Binga Farm has agreed to supply at least 10,000 hatchlings to the Mubiza Crocodile Farm for the next ten years. Crop farming will be confined to agronomy, Agronomy is the application of science and technology from the fields of biology, chemistry, economics, ecology, soil science, water science, pest management and genetics to the improvement and management of the major food crops of the world . Agronomy is differentiated from the plant sciences of horticulture, pomology, range science, and other applied plant sciences by the specific crops considered and the scope. Agronomic crops are those that occupy some acreage, and are the bases of food and fiber production systems, often mechanized. Examples are wheat, rice, corn, soybean, alfalfa and forage crops, beans, sugar beets, canola, and cotton. Also called ‘field crops’, these crops typically consist of a large majority of a country’s agricultural acreage and crop revenue. It is a science that looks at agriculture from an integrated, holistic perspective, informing practical decisions pertaining to food and fibre production. The whole concept directly falls under the Namibian “Green Scheme” initiative, which means the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development to encourage the development of irrigation based agronomic production within the agro-industry in Namibia with the aim of achieving various economic and socio-economic objectives.

Item Type:
Report
Language:
en
Last date for commenting on this EIA: Tuesday, 23 March 2021

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