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Piggery farms to get benefited from drone technology in Rwanda

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. Zipline, the company behind the project,  has been operating it since the beginning of this year. The company is  working closely with  the Rwandan Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB)

The aim of this programme is to increase livestock production to boost Rwanda’s food self-sufficiency. The new method could also reduce the risk of transmissible diseases, such as African swine fever. Farmers have significantly increased pig production with this drone-transported pig semen. With the drone delivery, semen is received on time and the farmer can be assured of the right breed.

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Smallholders pay between US $6.50 and US$10 US to inseminate a female pig and the drone transport is paid for by the government. To double the estimated population of 1.8 million pigs, RAB, has set itself the target of inseminating more than 150,000 pigs per year using drones.

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