This week in my work at Impact Hub Kigali this week with our agri track, it’s always lessons.
Three founders are trying to export French beans and chilies. The buyer price looks good on paper, until you add Kigali cold chain costs from farm to airport.
One team showed me their sheet. RWF 850 per kilo just for precooling and transport?? That wipes out the margin. We spent an hour redrawing their route, looking at shared cold rooms in Bugesera instead of running half empty trucks.
What I am learning in all this, is that export readiness is not just GAP certificates. It is logistics math done early.
If you work on horticulture in Rwanda, how are you solving the first mile cold chain without killing price?
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