Account for poor performance of agricultural sector in your country
- Unfavorable climatic factors. The unpredictable climate; draught and floods in Uganda lead to low output in agriculture
- Pest and disease to plants and animals lead to low output.
- Poor soils leading to low yield
- Insufficient access to extension services remains a key barrier to farmers’ uptake and use of productivity-enhancing technologies.
- Poor land tenure system prevent potential farmer without land not the produce. Secondary land fragmentations prevent commercial agricultural investments.
- A big proportional of agriculture is subsistence mainly for women and children
- Poor attitude towards agriculture. Many Ugandans have low opinion about agricultural investment.
- Inadequate markets for agricultural output.
- Inadequate capital to invest in agriculture
- Political instability discourages farmers.
- Poor infrastructure such as road enable faster transport of agriculture output to the markets
- Limited research in agriculture and failure to product high yield breeds of plants and animals.
- Relying on a few traditional cash crops such as coffee, tobacco, cotton, tea.
- Price fluctuations discourage farmers
- Few agro-based industries to process and add value to agricultural outputs before they are exported.
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