Abstract:
During the 1990s, the Government of Uganda (GoU) decided that national development agenda
for a few decades to come should focus on poverty eradication through democratic participation
of the community in the production of public and private goods and services, in a liberalized
market environment. The poverty focus is articulated in the Poverty Eradication Action Plan
(PEAP), with agriculture as a key sector of the economy that ought to be improved to enable
the poor, most of whom derive livelihood from subsistence agriculture, to raise their incomes
by practicing commercially viable enterprises and methods of farming. Government has
therefore developed the Plan for the Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA) as a policy framework
within PEAP that provides for the transformation of the predominantly subsistence agriculture
into a market-oriented sector of the national economy