{{The RDF Reserve forces has finalized and handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) a terrace project of one hundred hectares in Nyabihu District.}}<\/p>\n
According to the RDF press statement, the project that aimed at protecting soil and increasing harvest is evaluated at Rwf 130 million.<\/p>\n
It was executed within a period of one month and half by a total manpower of two thousand people.<\/p>\n
Maj Gen Jerome Ngendahimana, Deputy Chief of Reserve Forces, said that the project was in line with Government\u2019s plan to eradicate poverty among the population.<\/p>\n
He added that the Rwanda Defense Forces get involved in such programs in order to fight poverty, the major cause of insecurity to the population.<\/p>\n
Terraces built in hilly areas are one of the numerous ways that the Ministry of Agriculture has devised to increase agricultural production.<\/p>\n
Their other programmes that have been introduced like irrigation to see Rwanda cub the problem of food security.<\/p>\n
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