{"id":1498,"date":"2012-01-07T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T10:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/minicom-to-support-farmers-cooperatives\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T10:53:38","slug":"minicom-to-support-farmers-cooperatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/minicom-to-support-farmers-cooperatives\/","title":{"rendered":"MINICOM to Support Farmers Cooperatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Farmers in Rwanda have been advised to put extra efforts on subsistence farming as a way of enhancing food security and also reduce on imports of cereals such as rice, beans, maize among others.}}<\/p>\n<p>In order to achieve this, Francoise Kanimbla, the minister of Trade and Industry (MINICOM) emphasized that the ministry intends to strengthen cooperatives dealing with agriculture produce.<\/p>\n<p>The support includes easing their access to credit, training farmers on latest technologies as well as supporting them with latest technology.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the above strategies have worked well for some crops; rice for instance is progressing in several regions particularly in the eastern province, \u201cWe have enough rice in our galleries to sustain us for four years.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Production of local food would also reduce on imports of the same hence reduction of food prices. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though we import most of our foods from COMESA zone at no tax the transport fee still makes them costly,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1181 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rice_photos_terrain-df849.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Farmers in Rwanda have been advised to put extra efforts on subsistence farming as a way of enhancing food security and also reduce on imports of cereals such as rice, beans, maize among others.}} In order to achieve this, Francoise Kanimbla, the minister of Trade and Industry (MINICOM) emphasized that the ministry intends to strengthen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}