{"id":37822,"date":"2018-07-06T17:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rusizi-women-supported-into-bumper-coffee\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:13:38","slug":"rusizi-women-supported-into-bumper-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rusizi-women-supported-into-bumper-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusizi women supported into bumper coffee harvests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukwizagira says that before being trained by the organization, he knew nothing about good practices of coffee growing like pruning, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously, we knew nothing about coffee growing practices; we used to cultivate it inappropriately, with no information about the quantity of fertilizers to use among other practice, which resulted in low production,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving training from the organization since 2014, Ukwizagira embraced modern cultivation practices and currently the production has improved threefold. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cAfter being trained in coffee plantation handling, production was improved to the extent that we have constructed family house and bought hybrid cow. I have personal 150 coffee trees  and I plan to plant 300 more trees,\u201d Ukwizagira testifies.<\/p>\n<p>Ukwizagira shares the testimony with 200 women from Rusizi District of Western Province who were trained by Sustainable Harvest Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>All 200 women are from six coffee farming cooperatives.<\/p>\n<p>All trained women say that they have various development projects following good production from coffee plantation.<\/p>\n<p>Western Province Sustainable Harvest Rwanda representative, Martin Ngendo says that the project focus on women by encouraging and empowering them to cultivate coffee.<\/p>\n<p>He says that previously, coffee cultivation was considered as men\u2019s job. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWomen need to change their mindsets towards cultivating coffee and make it a family source of income. They should be supported more in coffee growing practices, right  from handling coffee seedlings in nursery beds to processing coffee beans for drinkable coffee. Farmers should also drink coffee,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n<p>Sustainable Harvest Executive Director, Ruth Coleman said that when a woman is trained, it impacts the whole family.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe did our best to train women so that they can, too, practice coffee growing. Before, coffee growing was mostly dominated by men. We want coffee to be come a household source of income, because when you train a woman, it means that you have trained the entire family,\u201d Coleman said.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable Harvest Rwanda operates in 13 Districts. In Rusizi District they operate from six sectors. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26098 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ukwizagira_fausta_umuhinzi_wa_kawa_uyivuga_imyato-432ee.jpg\" alt=\"Fausta Ukwizagira\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26097 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aberenga_200_nibo_bahuguwe_guhinga_kawa_kinyamwuga_na_sustainable_harvest_rwanda-440e6.jpg\" alt=\"All trained women say that they have various development projects following good production from coffee plantation.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26099 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ruth_coleman_ushinzwe_sustainable_harvest_ku_isi-d32b8.jpg\" alt=\"Sustainable Harvest Executive Director, Ruth Coleman said that when a woman is trained, it impacts the whole family.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26101 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngendo_martin_uhagariye_sustainable_harvest_rwanda_mu_ntara_y_iburengerazuba_asobanura_uburyo_kawa_ibungwabubungwa_kugeza_igeze_mu_gikombe-99e45.jpg\" alt=\"Western Province Sustainable Harvest Rwanda representative, Martin Ngendo says that the project focus on women by encouraging and empowering them to cultivate coffee.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26100 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ruth_coleman_asangira_n_abahinzi_ba_kawa_kuri_kawa_yu_rwanda-2e3c2.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth Coleman shares a cup of coffee with farmers \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26102 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abayobozi_batandukanye_bari_bitabiriye_mu_gikorwa_cyo_gufungura_amahugurwa-b4083.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee farmers in a training session\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fausta Ukwizagira has constructed a house and bought a hybrid cow from coffee cultivation, thanks to a non-profit organization, Sustainable Harvest Rwanda,that trained Rusizi District women in modern coffee growing practices.<\/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-37822","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\/37822","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=37822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37822"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37822"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}