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How these simple electric trucks are helping Rwandan farmers boost their profits

In Rwanda, farmers often watch their harvest spoil before it can reach the market. Ox Delivers is changing that. Esperance Dushakimana looks at her field of potato in Musanze district in North Rwanda. “It is hard,” she says. “We till the land, sow the seeds, reap the harvest and then watch helplessly while at least a fifth of it perishes before it reaches the market.” Barely 30 miles away in Rubavu, mushroom farmer Vincent Ngamije is forced to sell his harvest on the cheap across the border in Congo, instead of in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, where he can get a better price.

 

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