Rwanda is launching a campaign to involve young people more in the fresh produce sector

A group of Rwandan agricultural stakeholders has launched a campaign to support the country's youth involved in the fresh produce sector. Named 'Buy from Youth', the campaign aims to encourage young people across different value chains in agriculture and horticulture and empower them to bring about the necessary transformations by continuously creating and developing technology in the sector. to use. Dr. Abdallah Utumatwishima, Rwanda's youth minister, spoke at the launch of the campaign in Kigali late last week. He said this action will help reduce youth unemployment and underemployment in the fresh produce sector by creating market couplings and decent jobs. “With this, we are targeting four key horticultural value chains, including tomatoes and passion fruit, which have been identified as having ...