{"id":37610,"date":"2018-06-01T10:27:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T10:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-secures-over-rwf84-billion-to-promote\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T10:27:42","slug":"rwanda-secures-over-rwf84-billion-to-promote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-secures-over-rwf84-billion-to-promote\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda secures over Rwf84 billion to promote agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement was signed between the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), Dr Uzziel Ndagijimana and World Group Country Manager, Yasser El-Gammal. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the signing ceremony yesterday, Ndagijimana said that agricultur,e among other sectors, has big impact to the economy of the country,  contributing 31% to the country\u2019s Gross Domestic Product.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the grant will be invested in the promotion of using fertilizers, current technologies and market access as well as infrastructure development. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe will encourage investors to embrace modern farming,  abandon traditional farming which has little production and adopt modern farming which to meet domestic and market demands,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>World Bank\u2019s El-Gammal said that they have been cooperating with Rwanda in Agriculture in the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>El-Gammal observed that it is time to change ways agriculture is practiced in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe agree with the Government of Rwanda that shifting from traditional agriculture to commercial farming is necessary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25573 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_wa_banki_y_isi_mu_rwanda_gammal_na_minisitiri_ndagijimana-30d76.jpg\" alt=\"World Bank\u2019s El-Gammal and Minister Ndagijimana signing the grant agreement yesterday in Kigali\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Rwanda and World Bank have signed a $100 million (over Rwf84 billion) grant that will be invested in the improvement of capacities and support for the transformation of Agriculture sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37610","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37610"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37610"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}