{"id":55303,"date":"2025-08-20T17:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bumper-week-for-rwandan-agriculture-as-exports-fetch-over-frw-15-billion\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:34:01","slug":"bumper-week-for-rwandan-agriculture-as-exports-fetch-over-frw-15-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bumper-week-for-rwandan-agriculture-as-exports-fetch-over-frw-15-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper week for Rwandan agriculture as exports fetch over Frw 15 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data released on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, shows that between August 11 and 15, the country exported 8,182 metric tonnes of agricultural and animal products, with coffee leading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee exports generated $4.27 million (Frw 6.18 billion) from 561 metric tonnes, cementing its role as Rwanda\u2019s flagship crop. Tea followed closely with revenues of $1.51 million (Frw 2.18 billion), while diversified agricultural products \u2013 including cereals, roots and pulses \u2013 brought in $3.45 million (Frw 4.99 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Other key earners during the week included vegetables ($403,772 \/ Frw 584 million), mainly exported to cross-border countries, India, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States and France. Fruits contributed $276,278 \/ Frw 400 million, with cross-border countries and the UAE emerging as the main markets.<\/p>\n<p>Animal products generated $580,840 \/ Frw 840 million, largely destined for neighbouring countries. Flowers added $102,915 \/ Frw 149 million, shipped primarily to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda doesn\u2019t just export commodities; we export quality,&#8221; the agency wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s agricultural sector has seen substantial growth in exports over the years, with total revenue reaching $3.2 billion (over Frw 4.6 trillion) between 2020 and 2024, according to figures released last year by NAEB.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-92865 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/57070-2.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee exports generated $4.27 million (Frw 6.18 billion) from 561 metric tonnes, cementing its role as Rwanda\u2019s flagship crop. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s agricultural exports posted a strong performance last week, raking in more than $10.5 million (approximately Frw 15.19 billion) in just five days, according to the National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000092866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-62","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000092866,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/57070logo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/57070logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/57070logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/57070logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/57070logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/57070logo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55303","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000092866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55303"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55303"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}