The economy of Rwanda
January 27, 2009
* The main crop (in the hands of Hutu):
about the needs of their own: cassava, bataty, sorghum, corn, bananas, potatoes, peanuts
export of coffee (more than 60% of the value of exports), tea (more than 20%), tobacco, wood chinowe, złocień Dalmatian, cotton
* Breeding (in the hands of Tutsi): cattle, goats, sheep, poultry.
* Imports: machinery, vehicles, fuel, food – mainly from Belgium (19.4%), Kenya (16.6%) and Germany (11.1%).
* Media Natural small mining tin ore, tungsten, beryllium, kolumbitu and gold, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) a significant natural gas resources.
* Industry: underdeveloped, focused mainly in Kigali – food, chemical, textile, leather, construction materials. Production of electricity (179 GW h in 1991) comes almost entirely from hydropower.
* Transport: mainly car, the lack of railways. Lake Kivu on the inland waterways. In Kigali airport, international transport through the port of Mombasie;
* Science: 50% illiterate. In Butare are university and higher technical school, in addition to the work in the country of 3 research institutes, funded by UNESCO (Institute of Geological Exploration and Mining was founded in 1962, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Research was founded in 1989 and the Institute for Agricultural Sciences was founded in 1962) .
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