Crop Industry News: Rwanda
15 July 2020

Without sustainable growth of its livestock sector, Africa is expected to import up to a fifth of meat and milk within the next 30 years, according to the Malabo Montpellier Panel....
04 November 2014

RWANDA - Planting of the 2015A season crops (which represent about 30-40 per cent of total crop production) started in August with the early onset of the short rainy season (September-December)...
28 August 2014

RWANDA - Harvesting of 2014B season crops was concluded in July and production is estimated at below average levels. In some eastern agro-pastoral areas, where moisture deficits have been significant,...
05 June 2014

RWANDA - Harvesting of the 2014B season (February-July) beans crops is underway, while the cereal harvest is scheduled to begin in June. ...
11 December 2012

RWANDA - Over 1,600 farmers in the Huye district of southern Rwanda have received a payout from an innovative micro-insurance initiative called "Hinga Urishingiwe" or "Protected Farming" in Kinyarwanda....
13 January 2010

RWANDA - Agricultural production in Rwanda has been boosted by the launch of a new government programme, according to a report....
17 November 2009

RWANDA - Rwanda has signed on two foreign companies to start producing 20 million litres of biofuel annually from jatropha plants in three years time, the minister for energy said....
25 June 2008

RWANDA - The whole "Food Vs. Fuel" debate is threatening developing nations - nations that have to both food AND fuel for the sake of survival....