Rwanda Standards Board receives $1m to enhance food safety, service delivery of agri products

Rwanda Standards Board has ventured into a financial agreement with Trademark East Africa on April 1 in Kigali.

Followed by the agreement, Rwanda Standards Board has received USD 1 million to assist in continuing global best practices and provide improved services to its clients to enhance food safety and trade.

According to the agreement between Rwanda Standards Board and Trademark East Africa, it will benefit farmers, pack houses, millers and transporters to enable them attain international standard requirements in food safety of local agricultural products. Hence, they will be enabled to access a wide range of markets both regionally and globally.

Rwanda Standards Board (RSB) will utilize the fund in interventions such as automation of RSB processes to improve service delivery and increase customer satisfaction. It will also be utilized to develop a seven-year strategic plan that will guide RSB in keeping up with global best practices in standards for international sanitary and phytosanitary standards.

“We want to ensure that we support standards and certifications to leverage the trading platforms and the improved physical and digital infrastructure,” Country Director of Trademark East Africa, Patience Mutesi opined.

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