Contrubutions/Importance of plantation farming in Uganda

Positive contributions

• Plantaion farms provide employement opportunities for example Lugazi sugar plantation employees over 7000 employes
• Collect revenues form empoyees earnings on the behalf of the government
• Pay taxes to the governement
• Products from the plantation farms e.g. sugar from Lugazi Sugar plantation is exported to get foreign exchange.
• Plantation farms like Kakira Sugar works carry out research to obtain improved stock for the country.
• Plantation farms encourage outgrowers who earn money from assured market.
• Plantation farm encrouage development of processing industries such as sugar factory at Lugazi.
• Plantation farms offer social services suchas education and health facilities to their employes
• Plantation farming encourages development of roadwork works and electricity to the places where they are located
• Plantation agriculture encourages economic independence for instance sugar plantations provide enough sugar required by ugandan population
• By products of plantation farms for example sugar are source of electricity
• Lead to development of urban areas

Negative contributions

• Plantations lead to development of urban centres and associated negative cosequences such as poor higiene, high crime rates.
• Monoculture leads to soil degredation
• Plantation farms such as Kakirasugar works encourage migration of people from rural areas to the plantations. For example employees at Kasuku tea estate are from Pallisa, Moyo and Arua which lead to the decline in production of rural areas.
• Plantation farms may lead to displacement of people from their land
• High capital is required to setup a plantation farm leading to great loss on the part of the farmer.