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Support
Project for the Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture
(PAPSTA)
The objective of this project, which started in 2006, is to support the Rwandan Government in implementing its strategy to effect a gradual shift from subsistence agriculture, which currently prevails in Rwanda, to market-based agriculture. The project will provide support for farmers' organizations, the government, the private sector and other partners to put in place technical innovations (embocagement, or the use of living hedges around plots, as well as dairy production and intensified rice production) and raise the quality of services provided to farmers in the districts of Ngororero (western Province), Gakenke (Northern Province), Nyanza and Nyamagabe (Southern Province), Bugesera and Kirehe (Eastern Province). Plans call for pilot programmes in watershed protection, livestock development, marshland cropping and strengthening of the research and extension system. These programmes could subsequently be replicated on a larger scale by the Ministry of Agriculture to make a significant contribution to improving incomes for farmers and diversifying current farming practices. This project will also help lay the groundwork for the agricultural sector programme to be launched in 2008. Source: IFAD |
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