Abstract:

In 1981, the Government of Uganda adopted Adjustment Programmes and has since pursued a comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization and sectoral liberalisation policies. Structural series of Targeting the coffee sub sector were institutional reforms and 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 competitiveness of coffee production and export. 1iberalisat ion more on Econometries mode 11ing production and yields evaluate farmers to elasticities. time using for the period supply response Capacity utilisation, producer price to of series 1970-93 by use farmers as data on used was of price share of export proceeds, ratio and share organizations were marketing efficiency. Analysis Matrix competitiveness at farm and export were the findings of the study liberalisation short-run output (SRE) was statistically the cost procurement used to by show of product ion various marketing processing Gross margin analysis and Policy, the techniques used and to assess levels respectively. revealed that pre and during supply elasticities same at 0.205 for Robusta