Abstract:

In 1981, the Government of Uganda adopted Structural
Adjustment Programmes and has since pursued a series of
comprehensive macroeconomic stabilisation and sectoral
liberalisation policies. Targeting the coffee subsector
were institutional reforms and liberalisation
policies geared towards achieving extreme efficiency by
creating more
incentives for production, export and
private investment in the industry. This study set out
to investigate the effects of the liberalisation policy
reforms on
farmers supply response, participation and
efficiency of various actors in the industry as well as
competitiveness of coffee production and export.

Econometrie t ime series data on
1970-93 was used
t o of
elasticities.
cos t
by
were t o show and
were t o assess
revea led
procurement
used
by use
f armers’
price
share of
mode 11ing
production and yields
evaluate farmers’
export proceeds ,
ratio and share
that pre and during
supply elasticities
same at 0.205 for Robusta
The findings of the study
liberalisation short-run output
(SRE) were statistically the
organ isat ions
marketing efficiency.
Analysis Matrix
competitiveness at farm and export
using
for the period
supply response
Capacity utilisation,
producer price to
of
of product ion
various marketing
process ing
Gross margin analysis and Policy
the techniques used
levels respectively.