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Agriculture In Uganda Essay

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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
The economy of Uganda continues to depend on agriculture, which makes nearly 23.2% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (MFPED, 2013). Agricultural sector is the largest employer in Uganda providing about 70% of total employment (MAAIF, 2010). The sector meets the biggest proportion of the raw materials for the agro-based manufacturing industry. Food processing alone making close to 40% of the total manufacturing sector (UBOS, 2008).
Close to 90% of the total agricultural production depends on hand held tools (FAO, 2005). The level of agricultural mechanization in Uganda is low compared to other Sub- Saharan African (SSA) countries. This has resulted in low yields, low household incomes, food insecurity, and poverty …show more content…

Weeding in Uganda is mainly done manually using hand held tools such as the hoe (Olupot, 2000). Often manual weeding is highly labour intensive, associated with drudgery, and slow (Sims, 2000). This dominance of human power is threated by the aging farming population, rural-urban migration especially for the youth, increased school enrollment (Taylor et al., 2011). Agricultural productivity highly correlates with the farm power availability. Considerable efforts have been undertaken by the government through its established agencies such as Agricultural Engineering and Appropriate Technology Research Centre (AEATREC) to develop animal drawn weeders to alleviate the bottleneck in agro-production. However, these innovations have not been much welcomed by the smallholder farmers because they are expensive. Most smallholder farmers using animal traction have adopted the ox – plough for primary tillage against the animal drawn weeder for the weeding operation (Lubwama, 2000). The ox-ploughs are the most popular of all animal drawn equipment among smallholder farmers. Hence, the need to design a simple and cheap weeder that allows the smallholder farmers to use the ox plough frame available to them to mechanise the weeding operations. If no interventions are made, smallholder farmers are bound to continue experiencing labour shortages during the time of weeding, and the prejudicial effects of weeds thus realizing low crop

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