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Rwanda Agriculture Sector to Boost Export Capacity through the newly formed National Agriculture Export Board (NAEB) |
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Rwanda core components of its Vision 2020 and EDPRS are: private sector development, with the aim for businesses to become engine for growth, job creation and industrialization with long term objective for Rwanda to achieve a middle income status by 2020. The Government of Rwanda has been engaged in economic and business reforms aimed at fast tracking this change for some time now.
The Government Strategic objectives are a commitment to economic stability and broader Macro-economic reforms of public and private sector reform, liberalisation and privatisation through legal and institutional reforms. Such institutional reforms include the setting -up of National Agriculture Export Board (NAEB) and Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB).
NAEB comes after a long process to have it in place: first a new law Nº 39/2010 of 25/11/2010 Establishing National Agriculture Export Board (NAEB), determining its responsibilities, organization and functioning was passed by the senate. This law came into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda Nᵒ Official Gazette n°04 of 24/01/2011. |
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Rwanda Horticulture Development Authority (RHODA), yesterday, launched the Third Party Certification Global Trade Fair and Organic Export training in Muhanga District. According to the Director General of RHODA, Dr Ndambe Nzaramba, the training brought together representatives from cooperatives and companies from both the public and private sector. The 12-day training will focus on Training of Trainers (TOT) in its first group of 20, whereas the second group will attract 30 cooperative and company representatives.
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In an effort to increase export diversification, horticulture has been declared one of the top government priorities.
Although the industry offers considerable opportunities in terms of export receipts projected to reach over 12 US $million in 2010, it remains under-developed, with current exports around $1.5 million. In order to unblock this potential, significant intervention and coordination on the part of both the private sector and the public sector is required.
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