Agro-Related Policy Awareness and Their Influence in Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies; A Case of Tissue Culture Banana in Uganda

Wanyana Barbra*, Murongo Marius Flarian, Mwine Julius and Wamani Sam
Additional contact information
Wanyana Barbra*: Faculty of Agriculture, Uganda Martyrs` University Nkozi, P.O Box 5498, Kampala, Uganda
Murongo Marius Flarian: Faculty of Agriculture, Uganda Martyrs` University Nkozi, P.O Box 5498, Kampala, Uganda African Centre of Excellence in Agroecology and Livelihood Systems, Faculty of Agriculture, Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi. P.O Box 5498, Kampala, Uganda
Mwine Julius: African Centre of Excellence in Agroecology and Livelihood Systems, Faculty of Agriculture, Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi. P.O Box 5498, Kampala, Uganda
Wamani Sam: National Crops Resources Research Institute, P.O Box 7084, Kampala, Uganda Faculty of Agriculture, Uganda Martyrs` University Nkozi, P.O Box 5498, Kampala, Uganda

Journal of Agriculture and Crops, 2019, vol. 5, issue 5, 57-64

Abstract: Adoption of banana tissue culture in Uganda still remains low despite the availability of policies geared to enhancing agriculture. A survey was carried out on 115 smallholder farmers in Central Uganda to establish the influence of agro-related policies in tissue culture banana adoption between January and July 2018. Results from the study indicated that 83.8% of the respondents were aware about the Plan for Modernization of Agriculture policy as compared to National Agricultural Policy (5.5%), National Development Plan (13.12%) and Agricultural Sector Development Strategy and Investment Plan (3.3%). Age, gender and education level all exhibited weak correlations in relation to policy awareness while generally, the study found out that awareness of the of the policies did not significantly influence farmer’s adoption of tissue culture banana in central Uganda (P>0.05). We conclude that most of the agro-related polices were on paper and minimal efforts were in place to enhance their awareness amongst small holder farmers. We therefore recommend that increased awareness of agro-related policies to the farmers as well as integration of farmer interests in policy formulation are paramount in order to achieve wide uptake of agro-technologies like banana tissue culture.

Keywords: Tissue culture banana; Agro-related policy; Agro-technology; Adoption; Food security. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.arpgweb.com/pdf-files/jac5(5)57-64.pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.arpgweb.com/journal/14/archive/05-2019/5/5 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:arp:jacarp:2019:p:57-64

DOI: 10.32861/jac.55.57.64

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Agriculture and Crops is currently edited by Dr. Michael Adegboye

More articles in Journal of Agriculture and Crops from Academic Research Publishing Group Rahim Yar Khan 64200, Punjab, Pakistan.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Managing Editor ().