Fruit sellers have complained about the lack of mangoes on the market due to declining production in the last few years. Mangoes are one of the rare fruits, mostly due to local trees that have been affected by ‘strange’ diseases, with only a few professional farmers managing to control them. Continue Reading
When Telesphore Ruzigamanzi, a smallholder banana farmer from a remote village in Eastern Rwanda, discovered a peculiar yellowish hue on his crop before it started to dry up, he did not give it the due consideration it deserved. “I was thinking that it was the unusually dry weather causingContinue Reading
In Rwanda, schoolgirls can now buy locally produced, cheaper sanitary towels. Banana plantations stretch as far as the eye can see, covering the rolling hills. At the end of a red dirt track sits a rectangular building with walls painted an eye-wateringly bright shade of blue. ItContinue Reading
A new variety of highly productive banana plants will be distributed to farmers starting next month in a bid to improve banana production and fight disease in one of the priority crops in the country. The move, under the government’s seven year programme which will come to an endContinue Reading
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