What happened. What we learned. What comes next.

I grew up in Musanze and often visited my grandfather’s small fruit farm. He cared deeply about what he grew. As I became older, I also began to see how difficult it was to keep that farm going. Soil management was harder, irrigation was limited and reaching better markets was not simple.

At the same time, I kept hearing young people describe agriculture as work for older people, poor people or people who had failed to find something better. Many saw farming as something to leave behind rather than something they could improve.

Watching those two things happen together changed the question for me. Farmers need practical knowledge, useful technology, stronger market connections and young people who can see a future in the work. Passion alone was no longer enough.