Samenvatting

Soybean is one of six crops of special consideration in Rwanda on which it takes to accelerate sustainable agricultural and rural development. The Rwandan government has supported investors to invest in modern commercial soybean processing industries. Despite subsidy provided by the government, farmers are still supplying low quantity/irregularly supply due to poor market linkage to agro-processors. The objective of this study was to investigate factors that prevent ABAHUZAMURIMO cooperative to supply soybeans regularly to Muhanga Food Processing Industries (MFPI) by gaining an insight into their current relationship with an aim to formulate recommendations to improve the relationship. The main research question was “What are challenges facing business relationship between ABAHUZAMURIMO cooperative and Muhanga Food Processing Industries (MFPI)?”