Farming The Future Namibia  Pilot episode
Channel: FARMING THE FUTURE NAMIBIA
Date: 2021-11-12

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On this episode, we talk to Abrie from Kalahari Klein.
Abrie is a 22 year old farmer, he farms in the omahake region, a stone's throw away from the town of gobabis. We invited him to talk to us about his journey and how to start a farm.

This farm had served as a residential farm for his grand parents. Abrie has been farming for over a year and during this short time, he has found more ways to commercialize this former residential farm...here is how it all started.
If you are just starting your farm or planning on doing so, buying stock or getting your animals ready for the market does not just happen over night. These animals have to be fed an industry grade diet to ensure that they are market ready and each level of growth comes with its special diet, this applies to all live stock, small or large.

Abrie became full-time just over a year ago, we were curious to hear how his journey has been leading a team of men and women far much older than him and how his more scientific approach pairs up with the more traditional form of farming that his team members on the farm grew up with.

Farming remains to be one of the biggest job creators world wide and with increasing numbers in population, farms are under pressure more than ever to produce at a larger scale and governments are calling out to investors to jump on the wagon to help make farms more sustainable and reduce imports on products that can be locally grown. 

We can not emphasize enough on the need for collaboration among farmers and also in skills and knowledge trade. The transfer of sustainable farming knowledge will have future farmers pick and improve on the skills taught to them by farmers like Abrie and in so doing, would have taken a step closer to a self sustaining farming ecosystem.
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