Abstract
The agriculture sector in Rwanda with its five component sub-sectors, namely; food crops, cash crops, live-stock, fisheries, and forestry, is one of the leading sectors in the economy. It contributed more than 33.2 percent to Rwandan gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014 and is a pivotal sector in employing the largest proportion of the national labour force and absorbing as well as sustaining the living of the majority of the Rwandan population. The main objective of this practical study is to analyze the role of the agriculture sector, with its various sub-sectors, in the Rwandan national economy, and by various activities. Notwithstanding, here we are not only examining the agriculture role in the economy using the conventional standard approach, rather in addition, a more structural and developmental approach has been devised and applied. This adopted structural approach has been based on an input-output (I/O) techniques, in which a deeper analysis is carried out to study and quantify the direct and indirect as well as induced impact of the agriculture sector and its main components, on the economy as a whole and by various activities and sectors of the national economy of Rwanda. Thus, this would assist in, empirically assessing the role of agriculture, by its main sub-sectors, in the development of the Rwandan economy and on different aspects and dimensions.
(*) Chief Technical Advisor (CTA)/Senior Macroeconomic Development Planning Advisor,
UNDP/ Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8091607
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