Traditional millet farmers embrace maize growing
Farmers in Eastern Province districts are beginning to prefer extensive maize farming to millet, a hitherto tradition crop that every farmer cultivated.
![Farmers in Kirehe District weed a maize farm. (Stephen Rwembeho) Farmers in Kirehe District weed a maize farm. (Stephen Rwembeho)](https://www.newtimes.co.rw/uploads/imported_images/files/main/articles/2014/11/06/1415309727Farmers-in-Ngoma-district-busy-on-their-maize-farms.-S.-Rwembeho.jpg)
Farmers in Kirehe District weed a maize farm. (Stephen Rwembeho)