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Rwanda: New Mobile App to Boost Potato Farming
New Times, 23 May 2019
Nine banks and other financial institutions in the country will, effective next planting season, start issuing various financial services to Irish potato cooperatives through a new… Read more »
New App for Rwanda's Potato Farmers
The platform, Mpuzanunguke Kirayi, will help farmers carry out various banking transactions on their mobile phones, including applications for loans, and has been tested successfully by potato farmers, banks and financial institutions for the past eight months.
A Nyabihu-based professional Irish potatoes farmer stands in her plantation. Farmers said getting access to financial services will boost their welfare.
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