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Vendors at Nyarugenge Market. Food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 39.7 per cent in October 2022 compared to the same month of 2021 according to Rwanda’s Consumer Price Index (CPI). Craish Bahizi
Business

Urban food prices rise by 40 per cent

Thursday, November 10, 2022
Food stalls at Kimisagara market in Kigali. Rwanda has seen a significant improvement in its food security status, with statistics from a 2018 report showing that 81.3 per cent of its population was food secure. Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

World Food Day: How Rwanda keeps focus on food security

Thursday, October 27, 2022
A farmer sorts her beans plantation.Rwanda is offering free fertilisers to its farmer as it responds to high food prices, and drought that is threatening to cause crop production failure
Agriculture

Rwanda offers free fertilisers, irrigation as drought bites

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Farmers weeding their potato plantation in Muko Sector Musanze District. Potato farmers will from now start paying only RwfRwf603 a kilogramme for the NPK 17-17-17, a commonly used fertiliser in potato production.Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Govt increases fertiliser subsidies

Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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
An Irish potato shop in Nyabisindu in Kigali. Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.
Agriculture

Govt moves to probe ‘sharp’ increase in potato prices

Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Workers pack fertiliser at a compost site in Musanze District. Photo: Courtesy.

How three local entrepreneurs struck gold in garbage dumps

Monday, August 08, 2022
Mago farms getting awarded after a successful Pitch oftheir venture. / Photo Impact Hub Kigali.
Business

Meet Rwanda’s promising agriculture sector startups

Tuesday, March 29, 2022
A worker seals wheat flour packages at Azam industries in Kigali October 27, 2020. Rwanda rely on Russia for wheat imports with at least 64 per cent.

Rwanda looks elsewhere for wheat imports amid Russia-Ukraine crisis

Tuesday, March 22, 2022
One of poultry farm in Bugesera District. / Sam Ngendahimana
Rwanda

Govt to cut lending rates on loans to poultry, pig farmers

Wednesday, December 01, 2021
The New Times

Trade Ministry sets new prices for potatoes

Friday, November 12, 2021
A mini shop for potatoes in Kigali.

Editorial: Unscrupulous middlemen should be nipped in the bud

Monday, November 08, 2021