There are substantial geographical differences in the poverty rates, with lower rates in urban areas than elsewhere (GoR, 2018b). 2.5 Economic sectors. 2.5.1 Agriculture, fisheries and forests. Agriculture is an important sector of the Rwandan economy, contributing 33% to national GDP in 2015 (GoR, 2018a) with almost 90% of households practice traditional subsistence agriculture, mainly on narrow plots of land exhausted by continuous utilization (ibid).