Rwanda’s majority of its coffee is grown by some 400,000 small-scale farmers and their families, most of whom own less than quarter a hectare of land each (PHOTO/File)
KIGALI – About 2,828 women coffee growers from five Coffee Washing Stations (CWS) in Rwanda have been empowered to manage their coffee farm as a business and implement good agriculture practices to improve productivity and thus farm economics.
Coffee farming is normally male dominated however the women integration has a positive impact on the household financial management and the livelihood of the family.
These are the first results of the Nestlé-Zoégas and Sucafinas second phase of the Nescafé Plan-Coffee by women program which was launched last year and is implemented by the Kahawatu Foundation.