tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827250720771498655.post8558300377242492231..comments2023-10-25T09:24:05.980-05:00Comments on Sustainable Development: Agriculture in UgandaProf. Roothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05091555768823101805noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827250720771498655.post-69442507876009528162011-04-22T07:24:09.583-05:002011-04-22T07:24:09.583-05:00Iam student of Makerere University, doing food sci...Iam student of Makerere University, doing food science Technology in my final year,am so much interested in cocoa Growing, picked most of the interest from Mr. Lwangas lecture in Class, whom i a actualy visited there after.Two of my other friends want to venture in this Project after campus,we want to start with three acres because of our limited resources,but we have 7acres of available 400 hundred acres are so many,i wonder how your parents manage all that yet am even scared of managing 7 acres its very hard for any one in Uganda to manage all that.please advice us how best we can can manage cocoa production on large scale and which are the beat varieties for better yields. Its true people, attach more value to owning the land than making it Productive, which is Quiet a pity, we need Government put more effort in encouraging Commercial, Large scale Agriculture and empowering them to put their land to productivity. di25records@yahoo.coAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827250720771498655.post-62769730705429320932010-06-01T11:11:16.961-05:002010-06-01T11:11:16.961-05:00I read jen and Devin`s comments and i completely a...I read jen and Devin`s comments and i completely agree with them.It`s pretty clear that today`s farmer needs to be more efficient especially now that uganda is part of the east africa common market.Farm land should not be treated as a cultural status symbol anymore,it should be seen as any other capital resource whose worth is judged by how much productive it can be made,income or otherwise.A completely market based view of agriculture should be taken on.deo nyagonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2827250720771498655.post-81381361282596768912010-05-31T14:02:37.886-05:002010-05-31T14:02:37.886-05:00Jennifer is right – the division of farmland is on...Jennifer is right – the division of farmland is one of the biggest things hindering Ugandan agriculture. If you have eight children in a generation and half of them are male, your ten acre farm will get split into two and a half acre plots, like many are today. When this next generation goes to split up the land inheritance between another four sons, they’ll each get a little more than half an acre. This is clearly not sustainable, and will cause huge problems in the near future. Either inheritance laws need to change, or more children need to be sent to secondary education like Jennifer was saying. However, since most of these farmers are very poor, this is also a problem. And if the government keeps up policies like tax increases when there are crop price increases, this will remain so. Another issue that influences how the land is handled here is the presence of family burial plots on the farmland. The farmer my group visited, Abraham Kayizzi, had buried several generations of his ancestors on his land, along with one of his children. How hard would it be to let something like that go? There seem to be no easy answers to these dilemmas. However, the creation of farmer’s co-ops and governmental support (not ambivalence) of farming seem like the right ways to start. After that, the much touchier topics of inheritance and population growth can be looked at. It would be much better to look at those first, though. Unfortunately, the attitudes of even the more progressive farmers that we met seemed to rule out solutions to these tradition-bound issues anytime soon.Devin van Holsteijnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09890659336890129209noreply@blogger.com