ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 - MINAGRI

1 1 | P a g e i REPUBLIC OF RWANDA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL RESOURCES ANNUAL REPORT 2019 -2020 2 | P a g e Table of Contents ABREVIATION .. 5 FOREWORD .. 6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .. 9 CHAPTER 1: INNOVATION AND EXTENSION .. 13 GENETIC RESOURCES MANAGEMENT .. 13 PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY .. 16 SOIL MAPPING AND FERTILITY RATE ASSESMENT .. 19 RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGIES TRANSFERS ACTIVITIES .. 20 Crop .. 20 Animal 30 CHAPTER 2: PRODUCTIVITY AND RESILIENCE .. 42 Sustainable land husbandry and crop production .. 42 Land use consolidation .. 42 Soil conservation and Land husbandry .. 43 Agriculture Mechanization .. 44 Irrigation infrastructures development and maintenance .. 45 Use of improved seeds and inorganic 46 Food crops production.

2 47 Pest and Disease Management .. 48 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND PRODUCTION .. 52 Animal 53 CHAP 3: INCLUSIVE MARKETS AND VALUE ADDITION .. 59 TEA EXPORT PERFORMANCE .. 59 COFFEE PERFORMANCE .. 61 horticulture PERFORMANCE .. 61 DIVERSIFICATION & PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT SECTOR 62 POST HARVEST MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE .. 64 PROMOTION OF MILK VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT .. 67 CHAP 4: ENABLING ENVIRONMENT AND RESPONSIVE INSTITUTIONS .. 69 3 | P a g e Agricultural sector 69 Challenges/Opportunities in Agriculture digitalization in Rwanda .. 72 AGRICULTURE SECTOR VISIBILITY AND PUBLIC RELATIONS .. 73 NATIONAL EVENTS .. 73 INTERNATIONAL EVENTS .. 77 Mass communication .. 79 Printed Extension Materials .. 80 MINAGRI s Call Centre .. 80 Audiovisual Production and archiving .. 80 National and international trade fairs attended.

3 81 Gulf Food 2020 was held between from 20th to 22nd Feb 2020 in Dubai .. 81 World Food Moscow 2019 - Russia .. 81 International Floriculture Trade Fair in Netherlands .. 82 African Fine Coffee Conference and Exhibition, Kenya .. 82 National Exhibitions and Trade shows .. 82 Specialty Coffee Association of Japan ANNUAL conference 2019 .. 83 World of Perishables exhibition in Dubai .. 83 Planning Process .. 84 Joint Sector 84 Agriculture Sector Working Group (ASWG) .. 86 Program-For-Result (PforR) .. 86 Budget Performance .. 88 4 | P a g e LIST OF TABLE Table 1:Summarized achievements against NST1 Targets .. 11 Table 2:Soil analysis results .. 19 Table 3:New maize hybrid varieties to be released in 2020/21 .. 20 Table 4:Pre-basic seed multiplication under Screen-house at Rubona station.

4 23 Table 5:Plantlets produced under in vitro culture laboratory in fiscal year 2019 -2020 .. 25 Table 6:List of available OFSP under promotion .. 27 Table 7:Soybean varieties under multi location evaluation .. 30 Table 8:Land use consolidation for priority crops during 2019 -2020 FY at National level .. 42 Table 9:Quantity of improved seeds produced .. 46 Table 10:Quantity of crop production (MT) in 2020A .. 48 Table 11:Trend of Animal population by type (2010- 2019 ) .. 52 Table 12:Trend of animal products 2010- 2019 in MT .. 53 Table 13:Summarized achievements in agriculture insurance .. 66 Table 14:Agriculture Sector Priorities .. 84 Table 15:SDG Indicators status and target .. 85 Table 16:ASWG Policy Actions FY 2020/21 .. 86 Table 17:PforR DLI for fiscal year 2019 /20 .. 87 Table 18:Budget Execution per Institution.

5 89 Table 19: Domestic Budget Execution per Programs and Subprograms .. 89 5 | P a g e ABREVIATION AI: Artificial Insemination AGRA: Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa ASWG: BXW: Agriculture Sector Working Group Banana Xanthomonas Wilt CAADP: Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program CFSVA: Comprehensive Food security and vulnerability Analysis CIP: Crop Intensification program CWS: ECD: Coffee washing station Early Childhood development FFs: Farmer Field School GAP: Good Agriculture Practices GDP: GoR: Gross Domestic Products Government of Rwanda JSR: KVA: Joint Sector Review Kilovolt Ampere LFFs: Livestock Farmer Field School MCCs: Milk Collection Centers MINAGRI : Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources MINEMA: MLN: Ministry of Emergency Management Maize Lethal Necrosis NAEB.

6 National Agriculture Export Development Board NAP: National Agriculture Policy NISR: National Institute of Statistic of Rwanda NST: OWSD: National strategy for transformation Organization for Women in Science PSTA: Strategic plan for Agriculture Transformation 6 | P a g e FOREWORD Rwanda s agriculture transformation agenda is based on the successful implementation of the strategic plan for Agriculture Transformation (PSTA 4). The fiscal year 2019 /20 marked the second year for the implementation of PSTA 4. MINAGRI promoted the acceleration of Agricultural Growth, improved livelihood, shared prosperity to farmers and a growing attraction of the private investments in the agriculture sector. Strategies to ensure food security have been developed to cope with COVID-19 pandemic effects.

7 This fiscal year more efforts were deployed to increase agriculture growth and its transformation from subsistence to commercial led. Involvement of youth and women in agriculture sector has contributed more to agriculture modernization and value addition in different agricultural value chain. This is the right step towards reaching our national food self-sufficiency goal which is currently over 90 percent of all food consumed in the country. Credit goes to all agriculture stakeholders namely; staff of the Ministry, its agencies, development partners and private sector actors who are working decisively to modernize the agriculture sector. This move is both stipulated by the PSTA4 and the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1). In closing this fiscal year, we note that the registered achievements reflect efforts made in implementing the brand of new strategic plan for Agriculture Transformation (PSTA 4), which builds on the achievements and lessons learned from the implementation of previous Strategies.

8 PSTA 4 sets out ambitious targets to turn around the agriculture sector and transform it into a knowledge-based value creating sector that contributes to the national economy and ensures food and nutrition security by 2024. To be achieved, the development of new tools, new technologies with potential to mitigate production constraints need to be introduced. This will ease and enable the achievement of the sector targets. We have full confidence in the long-standing collaboration with our partners and stakeholders. The experience from the past years assures us that there is a solid resolve to move fast forward to unlock our potential and tackle some of the existing challenges in our farming systems. I continue to count on all stakeholders, continuous collaboration and support as we move on to our agriculture transformation journey.

9 Dr. Gerardine MUKESHIMANA Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources 7 | P a g e MINAGRI 2019 /20 highlights Climate resilience interventions Radical terraced construction: 127, Progressive terraces: 958,777ha Area under irrigation: 63,742 ha - Marshland developed: 37,273 ha - Hillside developed: 8,780 ha - Small scale irrigation (SSIT): 17,689 ha Social protection: 380,162 cows so far distributed to poor families Small stock distributed to vulnerable families: 8,735 pigs and 154,800 poultry distributed to youth cooperatives from poor families Agriculture export Earnings: Earnings generated from export is USD 419 million 19,723MT of coffee exported, 32,634 MT of tea exported and 31,789 MT of horticulture exported. Agri GDP growth: Agri GDP growth reached 5% in 2019 (Calendar year) 24% of agriculture contribution to GDP Agriculture finance / insurance: Agriculture finance stands at % 17,373 cows insured 9,477 ha of rice plantation and 357 ha of maize insured 8 | P a g e Animal products: Milk production stands at 864,252 MT Meat production stands at 168,687 MT Fish production stands at 35,670 MT Eggs production stands at 7,972 MT Honey production stands at 5,500 MT Food security and nutrition.

10 Percentage of food secure households increased from 80% to , which means increase of % from 2015 to 2018 Land use Land mechanized increased from 47,060 ha to 54, ha Percentage of mechanized farm operations stands at Percentage of agriculture population: % (NISR-Labour force survey 2019 ) Land consolidation: 765,110 ha in 2020A and 569,976 ha in 2020B 9 | P a g e EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 2019 /2020 fiscal was the second year of the implementation of PSTA 4. PSTA 4 has four priority areas: (i) Innovation & Extension; (ii) Productivity & Resilience; (iii) Inclusive markets & value addition; (iv) Enabling Environment & Responsive Institutions. In combination these priority areas provide the strategic direction towards achieving the transformation of Rwandan agriculture from a subsistence to a value creating sector, which contributes to the national economy and ensures food and nutrition security in a sustainable manner.