COMESA Regional SPS Section
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Rwanda: Overview on SPS needs and assistance
| Jean Marie Vianney | Feb-04-2010 [ Print | E-mail ] 
Agriculture accounts for approximately 42% of GDP and employs about 90% of the population. Beans, sorghum, sweet potatoes and cassava are the main food staples. Coffee, tea, bananas and potatoes are the main domestic cash crops. Europe has traditionally been the main
destination for Rwandan exports, reflecting the dominance of traditional commodity exports, coffee and tea.
- The Rwanda Horticulture Export Standards Initiative with support from STDF (RHESI, 2007-09, total value US$530,000) aims to foster horticultural exports through good practice promotion, regulatory reform, training, and information and database development in the plant health area.
- World Bank support to Rwanda is concentrated inter alia on agriculture, forestry and fisheries as well as industry and trade. In June 2008, the World Bank approved a US$35m financing grant for the Rwanda Second Rural Sector upport Project (RSSP2). One component of RSSP2 will support the commercialization of smallholder griculture in targeted marshland and hillside areas by intensifying production, promoting agricultural value addition, and expanding access to markets.
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