{"id":43079,"date":"2021-03-13T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bumper-harvests-as-rulindo-farmers-exploit-irrigation-for-horticulture-and-fish\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:42:50","slug":"bumper-harvests-as-rulindo-farmers-exploit-irrigation-for-horticulture-and-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bumper-harvests-as-rulindo-farmers-exploit-irrigation-for-horticulture-and-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper harvests as Rulindo farmers exploit irrigation for horticulture, and fish farming by extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAO Rwanda has been working with Rulindo farmers in the respective sectors of Ngoma and Mugoti growing vegetables in Yanze marshland. <\/p>\n

The organization started supporting farmers growing vegetables and later built dams to accrue water for irrigation. <\/p>\n

Later on, 125 farmers grouped in \u2018Horticulture Production Cooperative\u2019 (YAHOPROCO) used these dams to start fish farming through a project dubbed \u2018Knowing water better\u2019 funded by Germany. <\/p>\n

On Friday 12th March 2021, farmers harvested fish for the first time. <\/p>\n

Harorimana Jean Marie Vianney is one of farmers who attested transformed livelihoods from the project\u2019s interventions. <\/p>\n

\u201cHarvested fish will help us to fight malnutrition at home. We will pull several advantages from fish farming because we will also sell part of the produce to meet basic needs and increase our cooperative\u2019s savings,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Mutimanama Olive, one of beneficiaries said they had never eaten fishes and had malnutrition related problems. <\/p>\n

She highlighted that FAO\u2019s support is promising to transform their livelihoods. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had never thought it could be possible to produce fishes from the dam used to water our crops. We plan to earn much from fish sales and feed the rest to our children,\u201d said Mutimanama. <\/p>\n

These farmers sell a kilogram of fish at Rwf 2500 and seek to save at least Rwf 5 million so that they can buy a car to supply fish to different parts of the country. <\/p>\n

The Assistant FAO Representative, Otto Muhinda highlighted that utilizing such water for dual purposes increase returns for beneficiaries. <\/p>\n

\u201c We sought how to introduce fish farming even though their core business was initially to grow crops. We are glad that their activities are progressing well. We wanted to teach farmers on practicing consolidated agriculture. We introduced the approach here to show others that it is possible and hope the project will reach greater heights,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Farmers were also trained on best fish farming techniques and express optimism to yield big even after FAO interventions are concluded. <\/p>\n

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{Since 2015, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has expended US$ 1.2 million (Rwf1.1 billion) to promote consolidated agriculture activities in Rulindo district, Northern Province. The activities are consisted of irrigation and fish farming in ponds built to collect water for irrigation purposes.} <\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/43079","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=43079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43079"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43079"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}