From IRIN"Rwanda recorded a 14 percent increase in food production in the first five months of 2008, compared to the same period in 2007, exceeding consumption for the first time in four years, according an agricultural production report.
"This can be attributed to the large increase in production of mainly maize and to a lesser extent wheat for cereals and cassava for roots and tubers," said the report, prepared by the Rwanda National Institute of Statistics.
Total agricultural production hit 4 million MT compared with just over 3 MT over a similar period last year, the institute, established in 2005 under the Ministry of Finance and Planning, said in its report.
The increase was attributed to the use of high-yielding seed varieties provided by the government under the Crop Intensification Project."
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Category: Rwanda + Agriculture + Food
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