date:Sep 05, 2017
Emmanuel Hafashimana, a pineapple farmer from Kirehe District, Eastern Province, Rwanda, remembers when a pineapple weighing three kilogrammes used to cost Rwf50, leaving farmers without tangible gains from their investments.
Realising that the farmers produce was being sold at a giveaway price, and some pineapples were getting rotten in stores due to a lack of ready buyers, a cooperative was formed by pineapple farmers in Kirehe District, called Tuzamurane, which means, lets partner to develop