Datasource:
Seasonal Agricultural Survey
Period:
September, 2015 to August, 2016
The 2015 Seasonal Agricultural Survey (SAS) covers the agricultural seasons for the year 2016 in Rwanda. The datasource is expected to cover three agricultural seasons (A, B and C) for the year 2016 in Rwanda
Agricultural operators
The 2016 SAS results showed that about 2.4% of agricultural operators and 16.9 % of LSF practiced irrigation (see Table 33). On the type of irrigation used by agricultural operators, the survey results showed that the majority of agricultural operators used water channels for irrigation (52.6%), followed by those that used watering can (35.2%).
Anti-erosion
Anti-erosion was practiced by 73.2% of agricultural operators and 55.4% of LSF. Most of the anti-erosion activities were practiced by agricultural operators in Rwanda. The Survey shows that, in Rwanda the most practiced erosion control measures by agricultural operators in all Strata were Grasses (56.8%) and progressive terracing (17.3%) followed by beds (10.0%).
Other erosion control measures such as planting of trees, radical terracing, waterway and mulching were also practiced but with a small number of agricultural operators.
Use of pesticides
The survey results showed that in Rwanda 10.6% of agricultural operators used pesticides in their farming activities against 45.6% of LSF.
The use of pesticides is less than 55% of agricultural operators in all strata. Stratum 2.2 (53.8%) and Stratum 1.2 (51.5%) were having the highest agricultural operators who used pesticides followed by Strata 2.1, 1.1 and 3.0 (21.3%, 7.8% and 3.1% respectively).
The survey results showed that agricultural operators used pesticides mostly on paddy rice (67.1%), vegetables (39.7%), and Irish potatoes (25.4%). The use of pesticides by agricultural operators was less than 10% for other grown crops. For LSF, the percentage of users of pesticides was also high on paddy rice (78.8%), vegetables (73.9%) and Irish potatoes (36.8%).
Small agricultural equipment
Expenditure on small agricultural equipment by agricultural operators was mainly on the hoe (31.2%) followed by sheet and Sacks for agricultural operators (13.1% and 13.0% respectively) while LSF spent mainly on sacks, sheeting and hoe (41.9%, 34.4% and 11.0% respectively). Expenditures on the other tools that were used for cultivation by agricultural operators and LSFs were below 10% each of the total expenditure.