From 8-14 July 2022, Enabel and its partners participated in the 15th edition of the National Agriculture Show that was held at Mulindi Agri-show ground in Gasabo District in the City of Kigali.  This Agri-Show is annually organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources with the purpose of sharing good practices and success stories in Agriculture development.

This year, the National Agri-Show was themed “Building resilience in Agriculture Through Modern Technologies”. Enabel, through its Partnership for Resilient and Inclusive Small Stock Market (PRISM) project and partners exhibited, under the EU Delegation’s pavilion, various solutions for the Pig and poultry development.  

Access to Finance and Technologies Facility
This private sector financing scheme is portrayed by Banque Rwandaise de Development (BRD). It came to cover the everlasting burden of value chain actors who most of the times met heavy loans and interest rates that pull them in partial or total failure of farming business.

At Mulindi Agri-show ground, BRD promoted private investment through the access to finance and new technologies and innovations for private sector actors in order to strengthen market growth and competitiveness of the Rwandan pig and poultry sector. These two financing tools attracted participants in the exhibition as the main challenges that farmers ever face is the high interest rate in the bank loans.
With Enabel’s support, BRD subsidizes loans to value chain actors through commercial banks, MFIs and Saccos. By this grant the bank ensure a reduction of interest rate by 8% supporting private companies to improve production and productivity in pig, poultry and animal feed value chains. Through this grant 10 companies currently being assessed by BRD for a total loan value of 1,5 million Euros.

Affordable animal health services
In all the livestock value chains, animal health and genetic improvement are the core part of the quality maintenance and breed expansion. Through the Vétérinaire Sans Frontière, techniques and good practices in Poultry and pig farming are their motive objective to increasing healthy animals. It is a practice more farmers fail due to lack of knowledge or simply applying old practices that never meet the current business flow.   
Through the Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF), our Project has been exhibiting access to improved and affordable animal health services, by strengthening the capacity of local 60 private vets & veterinary technicians and equip them with necessary veterinary kits and material, as a result, 72% (36/60) are running a stable profitable animal health services business. So far, 7,452 livestock farmers (682 for chicken, 756 for pig and 819 for cattle are regularly having access to affordable animal health services. On an average the monthly income of the vets have significantly increased from 45,000 to 350,000 RWF.
As effects of Black Soldier Flies maggot meal on growth performance of broilers, the maggot supplementation could reduce 25% commercial ration fed to broiler chickens and it is cost effective. In the same Enabel stand, AGRI-TERRA has been exhibiting technologies that aim at increasing both quantity and quality of maize and soybean produced locally as animal feed, the Out-grower Service Company (OSC) created to facilitate a sustainable market linkage between farmers and animal feed processors.
Currently, 7 cooperatives with at least 2000 farmers on a land size of 1,968 Ha are regular members of the company and the productivity of soyabeans increased from 430kgs/Ha to 1,5MT/Ha in demo plots, 1,367.4 Mt of maize worth 310,190,147 Rwf were delivered to animal feed companies (Gorilla feeds, Uzima Chicken and AIF).

  The National Agriculture Show has been conducted every year since 2005. Organized by The Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), this exhibition brings together all stakeholders in the Agriculture sector. According to the MINAGRI, around 300 exhibitors showcased agriculture solutions at this Agri-show. It was attended by over 30,000 visitors who came to explore the new technologies and innovative solutions in the agriculture development.