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

dc.contributor.authorWanyana, Barbra
dc.contributor.authorMurongo, Marius Flarian
dc.contributor.authorMwine, Julius
dc.contributor.authorWamani, Sam
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-18T09:59:59Z
dc.date.available2019-07-18T09:59:59Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAdoption 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.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2412-6381
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12280/2435
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Research Publishing Groupen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Agriculture and Crops;
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectTissue culture bananaen_US
dc.subjectAgro-related policyen_US
dc.subjectAgro-technologyen_US
dc.subjectAdoptionen_US
dc.subjectFood securityen_US
dc.titleAgro-Related Policy Awareness and Their Influence in Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies; A Case of Tissue Culture Banana in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Murongo_Agric_Article_2019_Agro.pdf
Size:
489.17 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:

License bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description: