Summary

Kamonyi is one of the leading cassava producing districts in the southern province of Rwanda and cassava is the main source of food and income for farmers. Since 2014, the Cassava Brown Streak Disease outbreak reduced the cassava production and caused a considerable loss to farmers but the government provided cassava disease-resistant variety to cassava farmers to overcome that loss. The results showed that cassava small-scale farmers mainly rely on income from cassava production.