Denise NSANGA | 15/07/2022
From 8-14
July 2022, Enabel and its partners participated in the 15th edition of
the National Agriculture Show that was held at Mulindi Agri-show ground in Gasabo District in
the City of Kigali. This Agri-Show is annually organized
by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources with the purpose of sharing good
practices and success stories in Agriculture development. This year, the National Agri-Show was themed “Building resilience in Agriculture Through Modern Technologies”. Enabel, through
its Partnership for Resilient and Inclusive Small Stock Market (PRISM) project and
partners exhibited, under the EU Delegation’s pavilion, various solutions for the
Pig and poultry development.
Access
to Finance and Technologies Facility
This private sector financing scheme
is portrayed by Banque Rwandaise de Development (BRD). It came to cover the
everlasting burden of value chain actors who most of the times met heavy loans
and interest rates that pull them in partial or total failure of farming
business.
At Mulindi Agri-show ground, BRD promoted private investment through the access to finance and new
technologies and innovations for private sector actors in order to strengthen
market growth and competitiveness of the Rwandan pig and poultry sector. These
two financing tools attracted participants in the exhibition as the main challenges that
farmers ever face is the high interest rate in the bank loans.
With Enabel’s support, BRD
subsidizes loans to value chain actors through commercial banks, MFIs and
Saccos. By this grant the bank ensure a reduction of interest rate by 8%
supporting private companies to improve production and productivity in pig,
poultry and animal feed value chains. Through this grant 10 companies currently
being assessed by BRD for a total loan value of 1,5 million Euros.
Affordable animal health services
In all the livestock value chains, animal
health and genetic improvement are the core part of the quality maintenance and
breed expansion. Through the Vétérinaire Sans Frontière, techniques and good practices in Poultry and pig farming are their
motive objective to increasing healthy animals. It is a practice more farmers fail
due to lack of knowledge or simply applying old practices that never meet the
current business flow.
Through
the Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF), our Project has been exhibiting access to improved
and affordable animal health services, by strengthening the capacity of local 60 private vets &
veterinary technicians and equip them with necessary veterinary kits and
material, as a result,
72% (36/60) are running a stable profitable animal health services business.
So
far, 7,452 livestock farmers (682 for chicken, 756 for pig and 819 for cattle
are regularly having access to affordable animal health services. On an average
the monthly income of the vets have significantly increased from 45,000 to
350,000 RWF. As effects
of Black Soldier Flies maggot meal on growth performance
of broilers, the maggot
supplementation could reduce 25% commercial ration fed to broiler chickens and it is cost effective.
In the same Enabel stand, AGRI-TERRA has been exhibiting technologies that
aim at increasing both quantity and quality of maize and soybean produced
locally as animal feed, the Out-grower
Service Company (OSC) created to facilitate a sustainable market linkage
between farmers and animal feed processors. Currently, 7 cooperatives with at
least 2000 farmers on a land size of 1,968 Ha are regular members of the
company and the
productivity of soyabeans increased from 430kgs/Ha to 1,5MT/Ha in demo plots,
1,367.4 Mt of maize worth 310,190,147 Rwf were delivered to animal feed
companies (Gorilla feeds, Uzima Chicken and AIF). The National Agriculture Show has been conducted every year since 2005. Organized
by The Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), this exhibition
brings together all stakeholders in the Agriculture sector. According to the
MINAGRI, around 300 exhibitors showcased agriculture solutions at this Agri-show. It was attended by over 30,000 visitors
who came to explore the new technologies and innovative solutions in the agriculture
development.
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