The creation of Rwanda Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) have been approved by the government cabinet of july 2005 with a mission of  ensuring the implementation of the policy for crop production and management issues and enabling the attainment of the target vision of the sector.

The mission of RADA is as follows:"to contribute towards the growth of agricultural production through the development of appropriate technologies, providing advisory, outreach and extension services to stakeholders in agriculture including provinces, districts, NGOs, farmers and farmers organizations, private entrepreneurs, to allow them to modernize the sector in the framework provided by the Vision 2020, PRSP, the National Agricultural Policy (NAP), the Strategic Plan for the Agricultural Transformation (SPAT)”,.
 
RADA is responsible for:
 

• Implementing the national agriculture policy;
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• Supplying farmers with appropriate technologies in order to increase their
• production;
• Coordinating farmers’ activities and those of other agricultural stakeholders;
• Reinforce the farmers’ technical capacity enabling them to be the pillar of their
• own development;
• Coordinating all the agricultural activities bearing in mind their
• complementarities;
• Setting up adequate mechanisms to make markets accessible to farmers.

Units

• Soil and Water Management Unit
• Seed Production Unit
• Crop Production Unit
• Rice Development Unit
• Crop Protection Unit
• Post Harvest Management Unit