{"id":4020,"date":"2014-07-13T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2014-07-13T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:18:36","slug":"namibia-exports-90-percent-of-livestock-to-sadc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-exports-90-percent-of-livestock-to-sadc\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia exports 90 percent of livestock to SADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is the dominant player in livestock trading in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a senior SADC official has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite 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,\u201d said Paul Kalenga, the senior trade policy advisor at the SADC Secretariat in Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia exports 90.14% of livestock to other SADC countries, of which 87.68% is to South Africa and 1.97% to Angola.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, in turn, exports 7.22%, mainly to Mauritius, while Botswana exports 2.03% of its livestock, mainly to Zimbabwe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Namibia News\" href=\"http:\/\/sun.com.na\/agriculture\/namibia-exports-90-livestock-sadc.68223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is the dominant player in livestock trading in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a senior SADC official has said. \u201cDespite 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,\u201d said Paul Kalenga, the senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,2643,2641,2640,2639,4706,724,257,1412,254,4693,2642],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agricultural-markets","tag-in-the-southern-african-development-community","tag-livestock-trading","tag-livestock-trading-in-the-southern-african-development-community","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-southern-african-development-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}