Why agriculture in Rwanda still falls short of set targets

Published 2023년 1월 8일

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The article highlights the challenges Rwanda's agricultural sector is facing in achieving its targets under the National Strategy for Transformation (NST) by 2024. The Ministry of Agriculture's 2021-2022 report reveals low performance in major crop production and agricultural lending, with maize, beans, and soybean production falling short of targets by 46%, 32%, and 39% respectively. The sector received only 4.8% of total loans, far from the targeted 10.4%. Farmers face challenges such as high fertiliser prices, low-quality seeds, and climate change, which have led to reduced yields and profitability. In response, the government is implementing interventions like scaling up irrigation, providing quality seeds, and free fertilisers, and launching the Commercialisation and De-Risking for Agricultural Transformation Project (CDAT) in partnership with the World Bank Group. This project aims to enhance agricultural productivity and de-risk farming through irrigation, insurance, and affordable financing, with an objective to develop and rehabilitate 17,673 hectares of irrigation systems.

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Lending to agriculture, and the yield of major crops namely beans, maize, soybean are far from the attainment of Government's set targets under the National Strategy for Transformation (NST) due to come to an end next year, recent data indicate. According to the 2021-2022 report by the Ministry of Agriculture, the midterm evaluation of NST1, indicates where the sector performed well vis-à-vis to the strategy targets by 2024, and also shows areas lagging behind that need special interventions. These include productivity of major crops (beans, maize, soybean), agriculture loans, which were among low-performing indicators, the report observed. The maize production target by 2024, was 2.94 tonnes per hectare, but the current status showed that the quantity for this crop was 1.6 tonnes, or 54 per cent of the envisaged amount. For beans, production was even lower as it was 0.7 tonnes, or about 32 per cent of the targeted 2.22 tonnes by 2024. Regarding Soya beans, production was 0.5 ...

Source: All Africa