{"id":6813,"date":"2019-11-27T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6813"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","slug":"search-for-post-harvest-technologies-as-farmers-battle-poor-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/27\/search-for-post-harvest-technologies-as-farmers-battle-poor-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Search For Post-Harvest Technologies As Farmers Battle Poor Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By&nbsp;Michel Nkurunziza<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda Agricultural Board has\nsaid that it is working with agricultural experts to introduce affordable\ntechnologies that could help store potatoes for over a period of six months in\na bid to fight against food insecurity and low prices affecting farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda produces 916,000\ntonnes of Irish potatoes every year, making the crop the third most stable for\nthe country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Potatoes cover 3.9 per cent\nof the total cultivated area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statistics from the National\nInstitute of Statistics of Rwanda indicate that the per capita consumption for\npotatoes is 125 kilogrammes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Northern volcanic region\naccounts for more than 80 per cent of national potato production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this region, potato is the\nstaple food with more than 60 per cent of the production being used directly\nfor home consumption<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, potato farmers often\nsell their potato produce at giveaway prices during harvest seasons as there\nare no techniques to store them for long periods to be used or sold later when\nprices are friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lack of storage techniques also prevents them from reserving for food security in the future\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/business\/search-post-harvest-technologies-farmers-battle-poor-prices\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Michel Nkurunziza Rwanda Agricultural Board has said that it is working with agricultural experts to introduce affordable technologies that could help store potatoes for over a period of six months&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6814,"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-6813","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\/6813","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=6813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}