Rice farmers worried by falling prices

NGOMA – Rice farmers in Karembo sector in Ngoma district, operating under a cooperative known as CORIMI, say their future looks bleak due to the falling rice prices and the lack of market for their produce.  Speaking at a farmers’ meeting, the cooperative society chairman, François Mutabazi, disclosed that the company that was supposed to buy the farmers’ rice bought only 22 tonnes instead of the agreed 70 tonnes.