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Namibia Students' Financial Assistance Fund -2,013 Mio Student loans Namibia Tourism Board-90 Mio Development of the tourism sector Regulatory Namibia Training Authority-899 Mio Vocational education Namibia Water Corporation: Water supply and sanitation Commercial Namibia Wildlife Resorts-52 Mio Operation of the major tourist resorts in Namibia
Cattle on a farm in Namibia. Agriculture in Namibia contributes around 5% of the national Gross Domestic Product though 25% to 40% of Namibians depend on subsistence agriculture and herding. Primary products included livestock and meat products, crop farming and forestry. [1] Only 2% of Namibia's land receives sufficient rainfall to grow crops.
In 1990 the ministry was established as Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development.In 1991 the portfolio of fisheries was split off, and a separate Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources was created. [1]
Namibia is a higher-middle-income country with an annual GDP per capita of N$79,431 in 2022, but has extreme inequalities in income distribution and standard of living. [10] It has the second-highest Gini coefficient out of all nations, with a coefficient of 59.1 as of 2015. [11] Only South Africa has a higher Gini coefficient. [12]
The tender board of the Namibian government has been established by the Tender Board Act. 16 of 1996. [1] Preference is given to local companies if possible. Since early 2010, all unskilled and semi-skilled labour must be sourced from within Namibia in order to qualify for government tenders. [2] Namibia is not a democratic country.
The Swameat Corporation was established in 1986 as a state organization in charge of meat production and exports in Namibia. In 2001, it changed its name to Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco). [3] In 2003, following an EU ban on Namibian meat imports, Meatco had to return 17 containers of fresh meat to Africa. [4]
Harold Pupkewitz (14 July 1915 – 27 April 2012) was a Lithuanian born, Namibian entrepreneur and member of the President's Economic Advisory Council. He was the Executive Chairman of Pupkewitz Holdings, a group of builders' merchants, car sale businesses, and a host of other enterprises, from its foundation in 1946 until his death.
Namibia Nature Foundation, established in 1987, is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation located in Windhoek, Namibia.The organisation implements projects under the programmatic areas of sustainable forestry, CBO strengthening, sustainable agriculture, combatting wildlife crime, marine and coastal conservation, freshwater and inland fisheries, technical services, and applied ...