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The Uganda Development Bank and several other institutions supplied credit to local farmers, although small farmers also received credit directly from the government through agricultural cooperatives. For most small farmers, the main source of short-term credit was the policy of allowing farmers to delay payments for seeds and other ...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) is a cabinet-level ministry of the government of Uganda.The mandate of the ministry is to "formulate, review and implement national policies, plans, strategies, regulations and standards and enforce laws, regulations and standards along the value chain of crops, livestock and fisheries".
The NPA was created by the Ugandan Parliament in 2002. The mission of the NPA is to produce comprehensive economic development plans for the country. NPA is also mandated to coordinate development planning in the entire country, and to advise the executive branch on the best policies and strategies for the development of the country.
To support agricultural research and development in Eastern and Central Africa, [16] ASARECA works with a variety of regional and international partners. [17] The association fosters collaboration and information exchange among these institutes by working closely with the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) of its member nations. [5]
The Uganda Free Zones Authority (UFZA) is a government free zones agency established by the Parliament of Uganda.Operating under the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, UFZA is responsible for the establishment, development, management, marketing, maintenance, supervision and control of free zones in Uganda and to provide for other related matters.
Agriculture in Uganda; A. African Rural University; ... Uganda Coffee Development Authority This page was last edited on 26 January 2020, at 18:36 (UTC). ...
Agricultural products supply a significant portion of Uganda's foreign exchange earnings, with coffee alone, of which Uganda is Africa's second largest producer after Ethiopia, [28] accounting for about 17% of the country's exports in 2017 and earning the country US$545 million. [28]
AGRA, formerly known as the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyse Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the centre of the continent's growing economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive into farming ...