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Visitors during a guided tour of Kigali Silk Factory. File
Agriculture

Concerns grow over underused Kigali Silk Factory

Sunday, January 25, 2026
Workers reeling silk filaments at the Rwanda Silk Processing Factory.
Agriculture

Rwanda, UK firm in talks to revitalise local sericulture sector

Friday, December 27, 2024
Kigali Silk Factory workers sort silk before the postponment of its operation in Kigali. Courtesy
Economy

Two prospective investors drawn to Rwanda’s silk factory

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Workers at Kigali Silk Factory before the factory postponed the production. File
Business

Lack of investor for Kigali Silk Factory hurting sericulture farmers: Ombudsman

Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Workers reeling silk filaments at Rwanda Silk Processing Factory. Rwanda’s only silk factory is yet to receive another investor years after the exit of Heworks, a Korean firm that was operating the facility until 2021 when it folded operations. File
Business

No investor yet for Rwanda's sole silk factory

Monday, October 07, 2024
Dieudonné Twahirwa holding chili fruits ready for export to China. Since Rwanda’s signing MoU on BRI cooperation with China in 2018, the bilateral trade and investment between Rwanda and China grows quickly.

Ten years of BRI: Growing Rwanda-China bilateral trade

Monday, October 23, 2023
Layers are fed at Gikomero model village's mini poultry farm in Gasabo District. So far, feed for layers now costs Rwf560 a kilogram, an increase of about 65 per cent, from Rwf340. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana.
Business

RAB outlines alternative sources of animal feeds amid soaring prices

Monday, October 10, 2022
Workers reel silk filaments at the Kigali Silk Factory located in Kigali Special Economic Zone. / Courtesy photo
Agriculture

Rwanda seeks investors to manage its silk industry

Wednesday, October 05, 2022
Farmers sorting silk cocoons. There is worry among farmers about the future of their activities after the Korean investor left Rwanda's silk sector . / Courtesy
Rwanda

Rwandan silk farmers in dilemma after the exit of a Korean investor

Wednesday, February 09, 2022
Claudine Uwamahoro Founder- Cocomod Limited . / Courtesy
People

How one woman quit her job to start design brand

Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Workers at C&H Garment Factory at the Kigali Special Economic Zone in Gasabo District. In 2018, when Rwandau2019s access to AGOAu2019s apparels market was suspended, local producer C&H Garment Factory was the biggest exporter of apparels to the US.

Rwanda’s garment export revenues hit record high

Thursday, November 19, 2020
Workers in the Tuzamurane cooperativeu2019s new processing centre prepare dried pineapple for shipment to Europe.

IFAD: Investing in rural people in Rwanda

Thursday, October 15, 2020