{"id":42889,"date":"2021-02-16T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mukeshimana-takes-on-as-interafrican-coffee-organisation-chairperson\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T11:59:55","slug":"mukeshimana-takes-on-as-interafrican-coffee-organisation-chairperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mukeshimana-takes-on-as-interafrican-coffee-organisation-chairperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukeshimana takes on as InterAfrican Coffee Organisation Chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the organization are replaced every year on rotational basis.  <\/p>\n<p>Following the appointment, Minister Mukeshimana took over from Ghanaian predecessor, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto during a virtual ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Owusu also serves as the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Republic of Ghana.  <\/p>\n<p>As she took over duty yesterday, the new Chairperson, Minister Mukeshimana urged stakeholders for more work to promote the coffee industry in Africa and globally.  <\/p>\n<p>IACO was established in 1999 with country members initially. It currently comprises of 25 country members including Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is among African countries growing and processing high quality coffee recognized internationally.  <\/p>\n<p>Statistics from National Agricultural Export Development Board he National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NAEB) shows that 400,000 households in Rwanda force their meal upon coffee farming.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda harvests between 16,000 and 21,000 tons of coffee every year planted on 42,000 hectares.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37813 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mukeshimana-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), Dr. G\u00e9raldine Mukeshimana has been appointed the Chairperson of the InterAfrican Coffee Organisation.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37814 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mukeshimana_geraldine.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), Dr. G\u00e9raldine Mukeshimana has been appointed the Chairperson of the InterAfrican Coffee Organisation (IACO).} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-42889","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\/42889","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42889"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42889"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}