Rwanda | Nyamashake: PM’s criticisms brings change
Charles Bahizi, Vice Mayor in charge of Finance and Development addressing local leaders
following Prime Minister Dr Pierre Damien Habumuremyi’s recent visit to Nyamasheke district, where he criticized the district’s residents for mixed cropping (instead of single cropping and under-utilized terraces with poor quality banana plantations; local leaders have called a meeting to look into the matter.
On Thursday, the 16th February 2012, Vice Mayor in charge of Finance and Development Charles Bahizi chaired a meeting together with all Nyamasheke sector agronomists, cell workers in charge of development and leaders of cooperatives dealing in Agriculture. The meeting agenda was to set measures on how to rectify what the prime minister had criticised, for the benefit of their district’s agriculture.
The Vice Mayor requested the meeting’s attendees to sensitize citizens on land consolidation with clear demarcations of individual plots’ boundaries and written figures of quantity of seeds planted. He also emphasized the need to efficiently utilize the governments’ countywide dug terraces, noting that should a need for support rise, they should inform the district officials.
Agricultural cooperatives were requested to spearhead such modern systems of farming and where possible taking a lead in sensitizing the villagers about such agricultural enhancement needs.
The Government of Rwanda has for the past years embarked on Agriculture as evidenced by its funding of countrywide terracing and provision of soft loans for buying seeds among other subsidization methods that are currently being offered.
