He said his ministry is currently installing a telecommunications system to help identify and monitor the scale of agriculture production in the country.
The system is to assist in online monitoring of crop production among the Rwandan society and where or how the government can intervene in case of harvest deficit, Murekezi said.
"We are building an information transmission system which will help us garner and disseminate information regarding the scale of crop production in the country," he said.
Murekezi said the system will help the public, "especially foodstuff dealers", to access data regarding places with surplus or deficit harvests and where to put or collect them for sale.
"This system will also help us to monitor cost variances of foodstuffs at different marketplaces across the country," he said. "And this will ultimately enable the government to intervene in time and control the variances."
The online service delivery system by the Agriculture ministry is the third among e-school projects under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) launched last year, and tele-medicine system recently inaugurated by the Ministry of Health.
With passive optical networks, fibre-optic rings, e-learning and e-government, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are taking pole position in the country's development efforts as integral to the country's growth strategy and key in transforming the predominantly agricultural economy into a service-oriented one.
Autor(en)/Author(s): Innocent Gahigana
Quelle/Source: AllAfrica, 05.04.2007
