Rwanda | Rulindo farmers should find other source of income for more progress

The authorities of Rulindo district reveal that even though the district has received four machines to assist improving agriculture, not all efforts should be concentrated on farming as if it is the only source of income.

The vice mayor in charge of finance Prosper Mulindwa said that now farmers will get time to venture in to other foams of businesses after receiving machines that can dig a large piece of land within a very short period of time.

Mulindwa said “The finances of the Rulindo district should not only base themselves on agricultural farming. The farming machines should help reduce on people who only focus on agricultural farming to venture in to other businesses”.

He urged the people of Rulindo to take advantage of the machines whereby each of them should access the few machines available in his or her farming practises since the machines can do the work of farming with in every short period of time.

The people of Rulindo district were very much pleased of the machines from the ministry agriculture in its program of modernising farming and that they are ready to make proper use of them.

The president of Comixbu farmer’s cooperative in Kisaro sector Jean Claude Uwizeyimana said that the machines will assist them in their farming in the steep hilly places which had always been a challenge and save them time to venture in to other things.

“The machines will help some of us who practice mixed farming whereby one will spare time to concentrate on other foams of farming like animal husbandry and horticulture”, Uwizeyimana clarified.

The farming machines given to Rulindo district were greatly needed because farmers in Rulindo who practise extensive farming had always faced it rough when hiring machines from the districts of Gicumbi and Kigali which is very much costly.