Namibia is the dominant player in livestock trading in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a senior SADC official has said.
“Despite duty-free trade in the region, agricultural markets in the region remain fragmented. In particular, intra-regional trade in livestock is very low, almost non-existent, with the exception of Namibia,” said Paul Kalenga, the senior trade policy advisor at the SADC Secretariat in Botswana.
He told Nampa on the sidelines of the Agricultural Trade Forum Public Dialogue, which took place in Windhoek last week, that Namibia exports more than 90% of its livestock, and these exports are almost exclusively to South Africa and Angola.
Namibia exports 90.14% of livestock to other SADC countries, of which 87.68% is to South Africa and 1.97% to Angola.
South Africa, in turn, exports 7.22%, mainly to Mauritius, while Botswana exports 2.03% of its livestock, mainly to Zimbabwe…
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