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15 July 2020

Transforming Africa’s livestock sector is key to food security
Without sustainable growth of its livestock sector, Africa is expected to import up to a fifth of meat and milk within the next 30 years, according to the Malabo Montpellier Panel....

03 December 2019

Cattle Farmers to Benefit from Solar-powered Boreholes
RWANDA - Cattle in Nyagatare and Kayonza districts will no longer face water shortages and death induced by drought thanks to new boreholes run by solar energy....

21 February 2019

African opinion leaders joined Ceva’s ReproSymp to boost cattle productivity and narrow the gap in growing need for meat and milk in Africa
With Africa’s population predicted to grow from 810 million in 2000, to 4.5 billion by 2100 [2], improved methods of livestock production are seen as an important factor in the bid to meet the growing demand for safe and sustainable protein in diets....

02 January 2018

Beef Sellers Eye More Sales on New Year's Day
RWANDA - Beef sales were expected to rise on New Year in Kigali and upcountry, dealers said....

28 December 2011

Police Seize 500 Kg Of Illegal Beef & Pork
RWANDA - Police seized a truck in Ntarabana Sector, Rulindo District, containing 500 kilograms of beef and pork last week and arrested five people transporting unchecked beef to Kigali City....

17 August 2010

Farms Hit By Cattle ‘Abortions’
RWANDA - Livestock farms in several districts of the Eastern Province have been hit by unknown disease that is causing cattle to abort....

31 December 2009

Ban On Cattle Export Lifted
RWANDA - Farmers in the districts of Nyagatare and Gatsibo have welcomed the lifting of a ban on the export of cows that has been causing them heavy losses....

07 August 2009

Outbreak in Rwanda
RWANDA - Foot and mouth disease, a highly contagious disease has been reported in Nyagatare district of the Eastern Province of Rwanda....

05 December 2006

Rwanda Embarks On Embryo Transfers
RWANDA - Cattle genes in Rwanda stand to be improved with the introduction of the latest bio-technology reports Daniel Karibwije, East African Business Week. This follows 30 cows in different parts of the country having been cloned with embryos from Israel. ...