Agriculture and Environment

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This section covers the economic situation in agriculture and environment and it presents the main economic and agricultural with environmental statistics at national level. Agricultural statistics are generated from the census of agriculture (which in some countries includes aquaculture and fisheries) and the agricultural surveys subsystem. The latter are exemplified by crops and livestock surveys, survey of prices paid and prices received by farmers, individual commodity cost of production studies/surveys and, in some cases aquaculture and fisheries surveys

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Seasonal Agricultural Survey -2023 Annual Report

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) has conducted the seasonal agricultural survey for the agricultural year 2022/2023, which covers three primary agricultural seasons in Rwanda. The main agricultural seasons include Season A, spanned from September 2022 to February 2023, Season B which started from March to June 2023, and Season C which started from July to September 2023. The survey covered 1,200 segments and 345 large scale farmers across the country.

Seasonal Agricultural Survey (Season B, 2023)

The NISR has conducted the Seasonal Agriculture Survey for 2022 Season B. The data collection activities started from 2nd May and ended on 30th June 2023, covering 1,200 segments and 345 large-scale farmers’ holdings across the country. Rwanda's total land area is 2.377 million hectares, with 1.345 million hectares (56.6%) dedicated to agriculture in 2023 Season B. Of this, 983,000 hectares were for seasonal crops, 540,000 hectares for permanent crops, and 124,000 hectares for permanent pasture.