September 05, 2022
Rwanda: Cassava Peels Offer Alternative for Local Animal Feeds Industry
A new strategy to increase animal feed production by using cassava peels is being considered by the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board. Read more »
August 18, 2022
Rwanda: Milk Shortages, Price Hikes Bite as Drought Takes Its Toll
Pascal Dukuzumuremyi currently pays over 60 per cent more on milk than he used to about two months ago. Read more »
August 11, 2022
East Africa: New World Bank Report Paints Grim Picture of Food Security in Region
The World Bank's Food Price Index has indicated that between July 2021 and June 2022, the prices of grains such as corn, wheat and rice rose by an average of 31 percent in the 160… Read more »
August 10, 2022
Rwanda: How Soil Erosion is Posing a Threat on Food Security
In the last three farming seasons (over a year's time), farmers grouped under IABM - a cooperative mainly growing maize in Muhanga District, Southern Province, saw 28 hectares of… Read more »
July 19, 2022
Rwanda: Rwandan University Graduates on a Mission to Make Wine From Coffee
When Jean Aberd Bavakure, Pierre Claver Nsanzumuhire and Chris Munyankindi graduated from the University of Rwanda's College of Agriculture, Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine,… Read more »
July 07, 2022
Rwanda: Calls Grow for Govt to Do More On Food Security
There is a need to urgently devise ways to significantly boost food productivity if the country is to achieve its food security targets, experts and farmers say. Read more »
June 29, 2022
Rwanda: Rwanda to Gain Diamond Processing Factory
South African investors, registered in Rwanda as 'Solex Rwanda,' are set to establish a factory projected to add value to diamond and gemstone, as well as manufacturing jewellery… Read more »
June 28, 2022
Rwanda: How is Rwanda Faring in Agricultural Bio-Technology?
Agricultural experts are making a case for adopting agricultural biotechnology as crop production remains insufficient for both local consumption and exportation yet Rwanda's… Read more »
June 16, 2022
Rwanda: Countries Step Up Efforts to Close Wheat Supply Gap
Other countries like Argentina, Brazil, India, have stepped in to fill the global wheat supply gap that was created by the Russia-Ukraine war, The New Times has learnt. Read more »
June 08, 2022
Rwanda: World Food Safety Day - Call for 'Hygienic Practices' in Food and Agricultural Sectors
An estimated 600 million, almost 1 in 10 people globally, fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420,000 die every year. Children under 5 years of age carry 40 per cent of the… Read more »
June 07, 2022
Africa: Potential Solution to Africa's Food Crisis
Food insecurity has long been a devastating problem that hundreds of millions of Africans have endured for decades. In the late 1960s, one million people died of starvation in… Read more »
Rwanda: Officials Call for an Effective Approach to School Feeding
The Government's contribution to the school feeding programme is small compared to the current high food prices, and hence, should be increased in order to respond to the rising… Read more »
Rwanda: Growing Concerns Over Food Wastage
There is a need for increased capacity building and investments in reducing about 40 per cent of food that is going to waste across the country, researchers have said. Read more »
May 28, 2022
Africa: Call for Sustainable Measures to Tackle Food Security
Africa faces challenges in food security due to a number of reasons including, but not limited to climate change and insecurities such as terrorism and negative forces that… Read more »
May 21, 2022
Rwanda: AfDB Approves U.S.$1.5 Billion Facility to Counter Food Crisis on the Continent
The African Development Bank has approved a $1.5 billion facility to help African countries avert a looming food crisis over the next two years. Read more »
February 06, 2019
Rwanda: Why Beekeepers Are Grappling With Drop in Honey Production
USE of pesticides in farming, traditional beekeeping techniques and drought continue to hurt honey production across the country, a study has shown. Read more »
November 22, 2018
Rwanda: Beekeepers to Use State Forests for Honey Production
The Government has granted the right to beekeepers to use state forests for farming activities as part of strategies to boost output and avert the shortage of honey in the country.… Read more »