The RDF Reserve forces has finalized and handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) a terrace project of one hundred hectares in Nyabihu District.
According to the RDF press statement, the project that aimed at protecting soil and increasing harvest is evaluated at Rwf 130 million.
It was executed within a period of one month and half by a total manpower of two thousand people.
Maj Gen Jerome Ngendahimana, Deputy Chief of Reserve Forces, said that the project was in line with Government’s plan to eradicate poverty among the population.
He added that the Rwanda Defense Forces get involved in such programs in order to fight poverty, the major cause of insecurity to the population.
Terraces built in hilly areas are one of the numerous ways that the Ministry of Agriculture has devised to increase agricultural production.
Their other programmes that have been introduced like irrigation to see Rwanda cub the problem of food security.
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