Rwanda’s investors are ready to utilize 92,000 hectares of land in Congo Brazzaville

Members of the Rwanda Private Sector Federation, PSF, said they are ready to utilize 92,996 hectares of land that Congo Brazzaville has gifted to Rwanda for a long time.

 In April 2022, when President Paul Kagame visited Congo Brazzaville, Rwanda and Congo Brazzaville signed agreements that included the provision that Brazzaville agreed to gift Rwanda 92,996 hectares of land, including 51,223 hectares in Kidamba and 41,773 hectares in Louvakou.

 Members of the group of investors who will go to Congo Brazzaville talk to the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency, RBA, revealed that they are ready to go to Congo Brazzaville and utilize the land for the purpose of increasing production and the development of the country.

 Kamashaza Intora, a businesswoman in the modification of agriculture seeds, said that this is an opportunity they have been waiting for because they have a large piece of land to do their business. “This opportunity to work in Congo Brazzaville is a very good one. I was very happy because I am already a seed modifier. I am going to find a large area to plant the seeds so that we can have a wide market in other countries,” Kamashaza told the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency.

Aimable Kimenyi, 2nd Vice Chairperson of the Rwanda Private Sector Federation, told RBA that as businessmen they want to go to Congo Brazzaville and set up industries there to process agricultural products.

 “We also want to create an industry near that place so that products are not just exported as primary products, but the processing is also done because PSF has all the people to do that. And those in the industry when the time comes, we will take them there,” the 2nd Chairperson of PSF told RBA.

Various countries including Djibouti, Tanzania, Kenya, and Egypt have already given or gifted land to Rwanda for the purpose of production.