Top 5 Exporters of Fruits in Rwanda

SINA GERARD Ese URWIBUTSO is owned and managed by Mr. SINA Gerard. It is oriented towards agro-processing industry sector. The company is located at Nyirangarama in Rulindo District, Northern Province about 45 Km from Kigali City, on Kigali Musanze – Rubavu main road.
Processing and delivering standardized products and provide high quality services. Being influential through providing excellent made in Rwanda products; Being competitive worldwide and Enhance social economic development. Diversified agribusiness activities, including production of fruit juices and fruit wines for local and regional market.

FAIM Africa ltd. incorporated in 2008 in Kigali, Rwanda to meet the needs for clean virus free plants by establishing a plant propagation and tissue culture lab facility with the capacity to propagate 20 million plants per annum by 2015. We plan to begin production of virus free plants in Rwanda by 2012. In the meantime we will be contracting some of our plant services to other labs throughout the world, initially in Sri Lanka. The management has a combined background of over 100 years in horticulture, finance, and developing country experience.
Our Main Products includes: Passion Fruit Seedlings from Virus Indexed Plants, Plants And Seeds, Plants.

Rwanda’s fresh products are branded under the “RWANDAFRESH Brand” and processed products are certified for the recognized world quality industrial standards. Currently, our producers are under certification process for GLOBAL GAP, FAIRTRADE and ORGANIC standards. Below are some of the products promoted for the export market..
Rwanda grows a broad range of horticulture products include vegetables, fruits, flowers, nuts, and essential oils. Specific products include French beans, snow peas, sugar snaps, eggplant, carrots, cabbage, sweet pepper, chilli, red and white onions, tomato, leeks, garlic, cauliflower, lettuce, courgette, cucumber, avocado, tree tomato, banana, passion fruits, mango, oranges, flowers, and macadamia nuts.

Our macadamia nut production, processing and export business has partnership with farmers who consider model farms not only in urban areas but also in various places and think that they want to produce macadamia irrespective of the size of large and small. We would like to contribute to the economic development of this country as a third export industry following traditional coffee and tea by developing our business throughout the country.
Working together with farmers in Rwanda, we will continue to root in this area for many years, and we will continue to strive for our employees with our resolve to contribute to the development of the Macadamia industry and economy of Rwanda through our business.
Our Main business contents is the production, processing and export
of macadamia nuts Cultivation guidance and quality improvement to macadamia nut farmers in Rwanda

Rwanda has conducive climate, good soil and altitude for passion fruit growing. The passion fruit is a shallow rooted, woody, perennial and climbs other plants to search for light by means of tendrils. Passion fruit was introduced in Rwanda for commercial juice processing. Rwanda produces passion fruit both for the local and export markets. The country exports fresh purple passion fruits to the European market.
Papaya plants are grown in Rwanda by households on a small scale mainly for own consumption as fruits. The surplus fruits are sold to earn some cash.
There are different varieties of mangoes grown suitable to eat either as fresh fruit or for processing into juice and other products. Production has been increasing over year with increasing demand on local and export markets. The production of mangoes in Rwanda is estimated at 9,200 tons per year.