{"id":5497,"date":"2019-09-20T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"is-chilli-set-to-become-rwandas-top-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/20\/is-chilli-set-to-become-rwandas-top-export\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Chilli Set to Become Rwanda\u2019s Top Export?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Emmanuel Ntirenganya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rwandan young agribusiness\nentrepreneur, Dieudonn\u00e9 Twahirwa, last week landed a deal to supply 50,000\ntonnes of dry chilli worth $100 million (about Rwf90 billion) every year to\nChina, a move expected to significantly boost Rwanda\u2019s agricultural exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The five-year agreement was\nsigned on September 13, 2019, at the Rwandan Embassy in Beijing between\nTwahirwa and the Chinese GK International Enterprises, a trading company\ndealing with import and export of different items, including food items, solar\ncoating, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development means that\nchilli worth $500 million will be exported to China in the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also known as Diego, Twahirwa\nis the Managing Director of Gashora Farm, which specialises in chilli exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chilli deal is set to\nfetch more revenue than tea, or coffee, the two major export crops for Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figures from the 2018\/2019\nannual report by the National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB) show\nthat tea export revenue decreased by 5 per cent from $88 million in 2017\/2018\nto $83 million (about Rwf74 billion based on current exchange rates) in\n2018\/2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, its exports volumes\nincreased by 10 per cent from 27,000 tonnes to 30,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same report indicated\nthat coffee revenue decreased from $69 million in 2017\/2018 to $68 million\n(about Rwf61 billion based on current exchange rates) in 2018\/2019, whereas the\nexport quantities increased by 6 per cent from 20,000 tonnes to 21,000 tonnes\nin 2018\/2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to The New Times,\nTwahirwa said that effective partnership between farmers and the government\nwill ensure that the deal benefits all parties involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe deal is going to benefit\nour country in general as we will be able to increase our production and export\ncapacity and be able to generate more employment and ensure that chilli farmers\nhave a sustainable market for the next five years,\u201d Twahirwa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He disclosed that the first\nexport will happen as soon as they get approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are in the process of\ngetting the approval, it may not take more than a month from now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, he said, his company works\nwith more than 1000 farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis [deal] will mean an\nincreasing number of contractual farmers and also getting support from the\ngovernment so as to be able to do it efficiently,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCurrently, we have a 40Ha\nmodel farm but we are planning to increase the size,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Twahirwa secured a\ndeal to export 1,500 drums (barrels), containing 37,500 litres of chilli oil\nfor $2 million (about Rwf1.7 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agreement was reached\nbetween Kai Jiang Xian zi Wei Food on the sidelines of China International\nImport Expo 2018 (CIIE2018) in Shanghai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Original\nArticle<\/a> From The New Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Emmanuel Ntirenganya Rwandan young agribusiness entrepreneur, Dieudonn\u00e9 Twahirwa, last week landed a deal to supply 50,000 tonnes of dry chilli worth $100 million (about Rwf90 billion) every year to China,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}