Agriculture household refers to a household that has at least one person engaged in agricultural activities (either in crop or animal husbandry or both). In Rwanda, there are 2.3 million agricultural private households (equivalent to 69% of total households). Among the rural private households, 83% are agricultural households, while urban agricultural households account for 34% of the total urban households.
Considering specific agricultural activities, 63% of the private households are engaged in crop farming, while livestock farming accounts for 50% of total private households. Further analysis shows that, 27% of the total private agricultural households practice crop farming only, 9% practice animal rearing only, while 64% do both crop farming and and animal rearing.
The average agricultural household size is 4.1 persons. Of the total agricultural households, 72% are headed by males while 28% are headed by females.
There are 2.1 million private households in Rwanda who practice crop farming. Most of the crop-farming households (59%) grow 2 to 4 crops in their farms.