ID: | 15969 |
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Country: | Rwanda |
Title: | Rwanda - Smallholder Cash and Export Crops Development Project - May 2010 |
Description: |
Tea leaves in a basket collected in Nshili, Nyaruguru. Just 8 km from the Burundi border, in the poorest district in Rwanda, there are hectares of rolling hills of a tea plantation. Of these 447 hectares, over 300 are owned cumulatively by 2560 smallholders who have formed a cooperative. The cooperative of tea farmers in Nshili-Kivu (COTHENK) is working with a local tea processing factory of which they also own shares, to bulk buy, process and sell their tea. |
Size: | 11.32 MB; 4752 x 3168 pixels; 402 x 268 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1257 x 838 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
Show more details: | Susan Beccio |
Copyright: | ©IFAD/Susan Beccio |
Categories: | none |
URL: | www.ifad.org |