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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
WFP constructs terraces on hillslopes to create land for agriculture and increase food production. The harvest on terraced land increased by more than double. Photo: WFP-John Paul Sesonga.
Featured

World Food Day: How WFP is working to strengthen food systems

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
Delegates in a group photo during Rwanda Seed System Stakeholders socialisation meeting on SeedSAT, on September 30. / All photos: Craish Bahizi
Featured

AGRA’s SeedSAT seeks to strengthen Africa’s seed systems

Monday, October 03, 2022
Dental hygiene like flossing is essential. Net photos.
Wellness

Dental implants; what you should know

Sunday, September 25, 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
Community members construct terraces to fight erosion and turn soil fertile.
Featured

How WFP is tackling poverty, food insecurity

Friday, August 26, 2022
The fibre in quinoa can help with cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Photo/Net

Why quinoa is good for you

Monday, August 15, 2022
Agriculture technicians work on multiplication of a new variety of Irish potato seedlings in Musanze District. Agri experts are making a case for adopting agricultural biotechnology. According to the experts, genetically modified crops produced through the use of biotechnology have much to offer in line with addressing food insecurity and the increasing production costs. Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.

How agricultural biotechnology could boost food security

Friday, July 22, 2022
MP Omar Munyaneza, Chairperson of the parliamentary Committee on National Budget and Patrimony, and MP Angelique Nyirabazayire, the Vice Chairperson, during the presentation on June 29. Photo: Courtesy.
Rwanda

National budget expected to boost economy, tame commodity prices

Thursday, June 30, 2022
The New Times

How is Rwanda faring in agricultural bio-technology?

Monday, June 27, 2022