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Smallholder
Cash and Export Crops Development Project (PDCRE)
This project is intended to increase incomes for 28,000 poor rural families in four provinces in Rwanda by improving their tea and coffee yields. The main objective is to assist coffee and tea growers in setting up cooperatives that produce and process Arabica coffee and high-quality tea. The project also contributes to privatizing one of the state-owned industrial plantations and redistributing it to 4,000 poor smallholder households, of whom some 2,000 are headed by women. For marketing purposes, the project used Twin Trading Ltd. (TWIN), a fair trade organization set up to provide producers with a better return on their production. TWIN provides cooperatives with training, information, management support and access to specialized niches within the fair trade market. Cooperative processing associations are expected to be able to raise prices paid to producers by 100 per cent for tea and 30 per cent for coffee once the industrial facilities have been amortized.
Read also: Coffee from Rwanda: savouring a dream Source: IFAD |
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