The South Korean government, through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), has set aside $5 million to be used in the improvement of agricultural activities in Nyaruguru, one Rwanda’s most remote and poorest districts.

The deal was reached this March after the Nyaruguru district officials and representatives of KOICA agreed on the terms and conditions of the three year project. The funds will be used in the construction of contour terraces of about 400 hectares in Kibeho sector, supporting livestock cooperatives with at least 200 heifers, modern maize growing, milk production, among others.

“The project is timely and will boost the agriculture and land consolidation program of the district,” said the Mayor of Nyaruguru Francois Habitegeko. “We expect to increase on agricultural product, once this project is complete”

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Lubango — The Portuguese minister of Agriculture, Environment, Seas and Territory Development, Assunção Frestas, defended on Tuesday an urgent creation of cold-storage networks for the development of agriculture in Angola.

Speaking to ANGOP, in Lubango City, southern Huila Province, she said that the mentioned infrastructures are fundamental for the development of agriculture and cattle-breeding, as there would be no high risks of losing the production, as well as the products reach customers in good condition.

“Not only in Huila, but all over the world, 40 per cent of the products that are produced do not reach the customers, they either stay on the ground or are deteriorated between the ground and the final consumer”, she said.

Source: AngolaPress

Experts from the University of Greenwich’s famed Natural Resources Institute (NRI) will provide crucial research, consultancy and education services to the Chamber of Deputies’ Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Environment, an MP said yesterday.

” We will discuss how to enhance the work of our committee, assess aspects of research in agriculture as well as how to facilitate the Rwandan population on pertinent issues,” MP Adolphe Bazatoha, the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, told The New Times.

“It is really important if they help us deliver on these things. We have been collaborating with them and this will be their third visit. They are in charge of natural resources matters in their institute, and some are former legislators.”

NRI is a specialised institute that provides research, consultancy, teaching and advice in support of sustainable development, economic growth and poverty reduction.

Debarwa — The Administration of Debarwa sub-zone has provided agricultural implements worth 250,000 Nakfa as motivation to the exemplary work undertaken in soil and water conservation by farmers in Adi Seldait.

The head of administration and finance in the sub-zone, Mr. Gidey Estifanos, said that the motivation items include 260 carts, hammers, spades, and the like. The head of the Agriculture Ministry’s branch office, Mr. Debesai Gebregziabher, said that soil and water conservation activities of farmers in Adi Seldait are playing significant role in raising income. The farmers appreciated the sub-zonal administration for the motivation.

Adi Seldait is located 18 Km. northwest of Debarwa.

No doubt, agriculture has been the major source of employment for thousands of Kwara indigenes in the past nine years.

The dream of making agriculture the fulcrum of wealth creation in the state of Harmony began in 2004, with the invitation of some 13 Zimbabwean white farmers to the state by the administration of Dr. Bukola Saraki.

After the initial hiccups, the white farmers led by Allan Jack commenced operation in Shonga, a town in the northern axis of the state with 13 separate farms. The Shonga commercial farm gave birth to the Youths farm centre, Malete, a University town in the northern axis of the state.

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