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Over 1.2 million farmers have registered on the platform, with over 1,000 retail agro-dealers as well as 30 fertilizer and seed (agri-SMEs) companies. / Photo: Courtesy.
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FEATURED: BK TecHouse, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partner to boost agriculture

Wednesday, March 03, 2021
The New Times

Why the new law on investment is a big deal

Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Tractors working on a farm. Figures show that more than 60 per cent of the smallholder farmers in Rwanda have less than half arnhectare most of which is on hilly land and therefore need affordable mechanization technologies.

Rwanda turns to power tillers to mechanise agric

Tuesday, March 02, 2021
The improved cook stoves will reduce wood consumption by 50 per cent. / Photo: Courtesy.
Business

Attempts to save forests by distributing modern cook stoves

Monday, March 01, 2021
A farmer irrigates pineapples in Nyagatare District. An estimated 300,000 people are set to have access to clean water, while 7,380 hectares of farmland are expected to be irrigated. / Photo: Emmanuel Ntirenganya.
Rwanda

Nyagatare gets multi-billion Franc boost for clean water, irrigation

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Workers inspect tea that is packaged for export at Pfunda Tea Company in Rubavu District. Rwanda, like the rest of Africa, will be looking to the new leadership at WTO to get better trading terms on the international market.

Will Africa get its fair share under new WTO leadership?

Friday, February 19, 2021
A new variety of wheat plantation in Rwerere, Burera District. / Photo: Courtesy.
Rwanda

Should Rwanda be spending billions on wheat imports?

Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Access to electricity rose from 9.7 per cent in 2010 to over 34 per cent in 2020 . / Photo: File.
Business

Solar electricity is changing lives, testimonials from remote villages in Rwanda

Monday, February 15, 2021
A veterinarian inoculates a pig to protect it against swine erysipelas as RAB started the vaccination against the disease on February 9, 2021 . / Courtesy
Rwanda

Swine erysipelas vaccine offers relief to pig farmers

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Rolande Pryce, World Bank Country Manager for Rwanda.
Rwanda

World Bank pledges $500m to support Rwanda’s Covid-19 recovery plan

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Farmers work in a cabbage plantation in Musanze District. The current Covid-19-related travel restrictions have left farmers faced with a myriad of challenges, from loss of market and food waste to limited access to sources of production.

How smallholder farmers are coping with the pandemic

Monday, February 08, 2021
The New Times
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FEATURED: Dutch NGO boosts strawberry farming in five Rwandan districts

Saturday, February 06, 2021