Agriculture remains the mainstay of Burundi employing over 80% of citizens directly through coffee, tea and food staples production driving just below 40% of GDP though average land holdings around 0.5 hectares and recurrent droughts hitting output frequently explain high levels of malnutrition necessitating structural upgrades prioritizing productivity enhancements, distribution efficiency and farming techniques diversification maximizing per acre yields through community participation models adoption given small average operational scale involuntarily thus far. Exploring high value cash crops potential via cooperatives focused aggregation, fostering women entrepreneurship through micro credit access and nurturing local extension advisory mechanisms diffusion also hold merit addressing chronic hunger holistically over coming decades.
As experts assisting African agripreneurs refine market connectivity earlier, the small farming consulting practice at RFC powered by continental experience offers made-to-order recommendations designed to directly uplift harvests and rural prosperity in Burundi equitably through interventions spanning smart irrigation integration, climate-resilient inputs usage advisory and post-harvest digitized supply chain solutions together promising to nourish both national food security and unlock grassroot welfare maximization sustainably.