NISR has conducted the Seasonal Agriculture Survey to provide more comprehensive data on the Rwandan agriculture sector. During 2023 Season A, the data collection activities started from 4^th December 2022 and ended on 16^th February 2023 covering 1,200 segments and 345 large scale farmers’ holdings across the country.

The total country land area is estimated at 2.377 million hectares for which 1.367 million hectares (57.5% of total country land) is used for agriculture. Out of the total agricultural land, 1 million hectares were used for Seasonal crops in season A, 0.5 million hectares is the area under permanent crops, while 0.126 million hectares are under permanent pasture. Generally, the production of major crops was decreased, except for Maize and Banana (an increase of 12 percent and 2.3 percent) respectively when compared to season A of the last year.