Household objectives and achievement levels among Uganda’s hot pepper, french beans and okra crops farmers

Abstract: 
Ugandan farmers are increasingly adopting perceived High Value Crops (HVCs) including Chillies (Capsicum annum), French beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), and Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus). This is aimed at addressing priority household objective of increasing incomes. This paper aimed at determining the priority problems that farmers’ strive to achieve when they adopt these HVCs and the extent to which the objectives are achieved. Empirical results show that among the priority objectives, payment of school fees, investing in trade, good cash flow, procurement of more land, medical care, purchase of livestock and a car or motorcycle, only the fees objective were being achieved using HVCs income.
Les agriculteurs ougandais adoptent de plus en plus de cultures reconnues de grande valeur (HVCs) comprenant les piments (Capsicum annum), les haricots verts (Phaseolus vulgaris), et l’okra (Abelmoschus esculentus). Ceci poursuit l’objectif d’adresser les priorités des ménages dans l’augmentation des revenus. Le présent article vise à déterminer les problèmes prioritaires que les agriculteurs s’efforcer de résoudre quand ils adoptent ces HVCs et l’ampleur à laquelle les objectifs sont atteints. Les résultats empiriques montrent que, parmi les objectifs prioritaires ( le paiement des frais scolaires, investir dans le commerce, bonne trésorerie, acquisition de beaucoup de terres, les soins médicaux, l’achat du bétail et d’une voiture ou une moto), seul l’objectif des frais scolaires a été atteint en utilisant le revenu des HVCs.
Language: 
English
Date of publication: 
2010
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East Africa
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RUFORUM Conferences and Workshops
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Open Access
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Printed resource
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1617-1621
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"The 2010 RUFORUM Biennial Conference was the second in the series. The main objective of the Biennial conferences is to provide a platform for agricultural research for development stakeholders in Africa and beyond to actively exchange findings and experiences, while at the same time learning lessons towards improving performance of the agricultural sector and ultimately people’s livelihoods. The biennial conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholers in agriculture. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. This record contains an extended abstract accepted under the theme socio-economics".