Editing Grootfontein (section)

==Economy and infrastructure==
===Transport===
[[File:Grootfontein Airport (2018).jpg|thumb|Military Airport and the town beyond|left]]
Grootfontein is a [[railhead]] on [[TransNamib]], the national railway and transport system. The next station to the west is [[Otavi]]. Grootfontein is also home of Namibia's main military base which housed several units of the now departed [[South African Defence Force]]. 

It has an airfield that can handle large transport carriers such as the Hercules C130, as well as commercial passenger aircraft.

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===Agriculture===
''The Grootfontein Show'', an annual agricultural exhibition that has taken place since 1911,<ref>{{cite news
 |url       = http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=40818
 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130221051202/http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=40818
 |url-status  = dead
 |archive-date = 21 February 2013
 |title     = Onÿarata @ Grootfontein Show centenary while The Wire storm the coastal towns
 |date      = 23 September 2011
 |newspaper = [[New Era (Namibia)|New Era]]
}}</ref> is the second largest annual entrepreneurial exhibition in the country, after the [[Windhoek Show]].<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.namibian.com.na/archive19982004/2004/september/national/046B5E1F0B.html
|title=Farmer dies at Show
|date=29 September 2004
|newspaper=[[The Namibian]]
|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024191930/https://www.namibian.com.na/archive19982004/2004/september/national/046B5E1F0B.html
|archive-date=2021-10-24
}}</ref>