May 2017


National Development Report (NDR) FY 2012/13

Submitted by on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 10:50

This National Development Report (NDR), is the third report to be produced by the National Planning Authority (NPA), and has been produced in fulfilment of the requirement by the National Planning Act, 2002, the Vision 2040 Framework and the National Development Plan (NDP) 2010/11-2014/15.  



Taxation for investment in the Uganda Agricultural Sector

Submitted by on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 09:43

The Ugandan agricultural sector is grossly underfunded. The Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries receives only 3 percent of the national budget despite the sector accounting for 70 percent of employment in the country



Subsistence farming (Persistence in Uganda)

Submitted by on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 09:38

Uganda strives to transform the agriculture sector from subsistence to commercial agriculture, in part, to increase household incomes. While a number of policy interventions have been designed to this effect, the sector has remained largely subsistence


Marketing of Rice in Eastern Uganda

Submitted by on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 09:35

Avenues for marketing rice in three districts of Butaleja, Tororo, and Bugiri in Eastern Uganda are studied based on data collected from a community and market survey. Survey results reveal that majority of farmers sell their rice to traders and middlemen, followed by processors and individual consumer


The Seed Potato Gap in Uganda

Submitted by on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 09:32

Shortage in seed potato is identified as a major problem affecting quality potato production in the Kigezi sub-region. The shortfalls in supply has three dimensions (i) the limited volumes of clean seed produced, and (ii) inadequacies in the supply of the right potato varieties - to support industrial level processing of potato into crisps and quality frozen chips.


The LG Department Planning Guidelines

Submitted by on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 09:15

Since the introduction of the Comprehensive National Development Planning Framework (CNDPF) in 2007, a number of changes in the planning system have occurred. The CNDPF itself presented a shift in the development planning mechanism from a needs-based to a proactive vision-based planning



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