Labour force profile of agriculture sector

The Agriculture establishments in the private sector in Rwanda have 23 principal activities. The top principal activities include raising and breeding of cattle (10.6%), raising of poultry (9.7%), plant propagation (9.0%), production of milk (7.4%), growing of beverage crops and post-harvest crop activities each (7.1%), seed processing (6.5%), growing of cereals except (rice) and growing of leguminous crops each (4.5%). Large establishments account for 35.5%, micro establishments accounts 27.5%, whereas small and medium establishments accounts for 19.0% and 18.0% respectively. The Agriculture sector establishments in Rwanda had a total of 30,044 labor units employed as managers, professionals (engineers), liberal professionals, technicians and artisans. In terms of gender, men constitute 56.6% and women 43.4% of the total labor units. 85.2% of the employees were agricultural artisans, 10.8% technicians and 2.4% managers. Scientists, professionals and liberal professionals constituted 0.7% and 0.9% respectively.