| Summary: | This report presents the baseline survey of the Transforming Agrifood Systems in West and
Central Africa (TAFS-WCA) initiative in Rwanda. Three regions of Rwanda were surveyed.
Data were collected with smart tablets using the CSPro application. A total of 481 actors in
agricultural production and value chain were surveyed during the baseline data collection in in
Rwanda. These are mainly rice, maize, soybean, beans, cassava, sweet potato, banana, African
vegetables, inputs dealers, traders, processors and service providers. All data analyses were
carried out with the STATA 16 software.
Out of the surveyed population, 16.84% (81) are rice farmers, 8.52% (41) maize producers,
8.52% (41) soybean growers, 12.68% (61) bean producers, 8.11% (39) cassava growers, 8.32%
(40) sweet potato farmers, 8.32% (40) banana producers, 12.47% (60) African vegetables
growers, 4.16% (20) input dealers, 9.15% (44) traders, 1.25% (6) processors and 1.66% (8)
service providers. The age of rice farmers in the country ranges from 19 to 81 years with a
mean age of 46 years. The average household size of actors is 5 people and about 57% of them
are male and 88% are married. In addition, 92% of the actors have received formal education
and 81% has crop production as main occupation. Moreover, 35 % of producers grow crops
during rainy season, 12% in dry season while 53% in both seasons.
With regard to climate change information’s, about 33.75% of producers have access to pest
or disease outbreak and 24.81% to information on seasonal forecasts (weather information for
the coming 2-3 months).
As far as food security and the poverty index are concerned, preliminary results showed that
the vast majority of farmers’ households had an acceptable level of dietary diversity, meal
frequency and nutritional importance of the food groups consumed; and the poverty index of
the population was 69%.
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