China offers lessons for Namibia’s food security goals

Namibia is seeking to deepen agricultural cooperation with China by prioritising technology transfer and encouraging Chinese companies to establish local assembly plants for agricultural machinery.

During a visit to the Sichuan Agriculture Research Station as part of president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s state visit to China, minister of agriculture Inge Zaamwani praised the facility’s advancements in crop production, high-yield seed varieties and agricultural technology.

“It is very impressive what they are doing here. The production, the quality of the plants they are producing, the yield per hectare, the number of times you can harvest per annum and, most importantly, the technology that is very critical to this type of activity,” she said.