{The Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) has revealed a plan to undertake a survey aimed at seeking to sustainably resolve the matter of rivers flooding Bugarama valley.}
Rice farmers in Bugarama valley have been lamenting over rivers flooding and ravage fields of rice .These Rivers devastating their lands are Rubyiro, Katabuvuga among other rivers surrounding Bugarama valley.
Nkundineza Emmanuel, one farmer who talked to IGIHE said that rivers deposit stones in their fields which destroy their land.
The permanent secretary in MINAGRI, Innocent Muhayimana revealed a plan of undertaking a study to solve the matter. He said this on March 6, 2016 when he visited Katabavuga River.
“We are going to extensively undergo a study aiming at solving the matter of water and other mountains debris flowing to rivers and deported to fields. The delegation will help us to find what can be done to counteract such erosion affecting Bugarama valley,” he said.
He said that the study must be undergone this year to be implemented.
The vice mayor of Rusizi district in charge of development , Innocent Musabyimana has advised them to seek a machine facilitating to process debris from one of the flooding rivers in this Autumn season.
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