On the whole, the contribution of the agricultural
sector to the National Gross Domestic Product in 2005/06 was 31 percent.
Output from the agricultural sector for the financial
year 2005/06, was estimated to have marginally increased by 0.4 percent in
2005/06 compared to an increase of 1.5 Percent in 2004/05.
Number
of Agricultural Households
In 2005/06, the number of Agricultural Households was
estimated to be 4.2 million or 78.8 per cent of all the Households.
Results of the Agricultural module of the
Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) 2005/6 also show an increase in the
number of agricultural Households as revealed by the figure below
Crop Production
Growth in the agricultural sector is highly affected
by weather conditions as the sector is largely small holder and is heavily rain
fed. The erratic and unevenly
distributed rainfall recorded in 2004 and 2005 is increasingly affecting output
especially food crops. Drought caused
scarcity of seeds and planting materials, especially, cassava cuttings, sweet
potato vines, hence limiting the planting of crops in some districts. This was
aggravated by other factors such as poor soils, pests and disease attacks and
increasing land fragmentation shown by the decreasing Average holding size as shown
in the figure below.
Production
(Mt) and Area (Ha) of major crops
|
Crop
type |
Production
('000mt) |
Acreage
('000Ha) |
|
Maize |
2,400 |
1,539 |
|
Finger
millet |
189 |
262 |
|
Sorghum |
162 |
328 |
|
Rice |
180 |
107 |
|
Beans |
665 |
872 |
|
Groundnuts |
219 |
283 |
|
Banana
(food type) |
4,176 |
1,112 |
|
Cassava |
1,656 |
1,070 |
|
Sweet
potatoes |
1,695 |
672 |
Number
of Cattle
The National Herd was 7.5 million in the UNHS 2005/06
composed of 1.3 million (or 17.3%) Exotic/Cross Cattle and 6.2 million (or
82.7%) Indigenous Cattle.
The Central Region led in Indigenous Cattle with
nearly 2 million (31.5%) followed by the Eastern Region with 1.6 million
(25.5%). The Northern and Western regions had 1.3 million (20.3%) and 1.4
million (22.6%) respectively. Out of the 1.3 million Exotic/Cross cattle, the
Western Region had the highest number (890,000), which was 70.5 percent of
Exotic/Cross Cattle. The Central Region was next with 198,000 (or 15.7%). The
Northern Region had the least number of Exotic Cattle (22,000) representing
only 1.8 percent.
Cattle Number by breed and region, UNHS
2005/06 (‘000)
|
Region |
Exotic |
Indigenous |
Total |
|
Central |
198 |
1976 |
2174 |
|
Eastern |
151 |
1601 |
1752 |
|
Northern |
22 |
1273 |
1295 |
|
Western |
890 |
1419 |
2309 |
|
Total |
1262 |
6269 |
7531 |
Goats
The estimated number of goats was 8.1 million as given
in the table below. Out of this, 0.3
million (3.9%) were exotic goats.
|
Region |
Exotic |
Indigenous |
Total |
|
Central |
42 |
1220 |
1262 |
|
Eastern |
55 |
1647 |
1702 |
|
Northern |
13 |
2167 |
2180 |
|
Western |
208 |
2725 |
2934 |
|
Total |
318 |
7759 |
8078 |
Number
of Sheep
The national sheep flock was estimated at 1,217,000.
This was a
fall from 1,555,000 recorded during the PHC 2002.
Exotic sheep were estimated nationally at 21,000 (1.7%) of the national flock.
With nearly 16,000, the Western region had 76.2 percent of the exotic sheep.
Number
of Sheep by Breed and Region (‘000)
|
Region |
Exotic |
Indigenous |
Total |
|
Central |
5 |
161 |
166 |
|
Eastern |
|
145 |
145 |
|
Northern |
|
512 |
512 |
|
Western |
16 |
378 |
394 |
|
Total |
21 |
1,196 |
1,217 |
Number of Pig (‘000)
The
number of pigs for
|
Region |
Total |
% |
|
Central |
835 |
49 |
|
Eastern |
387 |
23 |
|
Northern |
138 |
8 |
|
Western |
347 |
20 |
|
Total |
1,707 |
100 |
Number
of Chicken
The national chicken flock, which was 23.5 million,
composed of 3.7 million (15.8%) exotic/cross Chicken and 19.8 million (84.2%)
back-yard.
Regarding back-yard Local Chicken, the Eastern Region
had the highest share of nearly 7.4 million birds (37.3%). The Central and
Northern regions followed closely with 4.3 million (21.7%) and 4.2 million
(21.3%) respectively.
The Western Region with 3.9 million had the least
number of Local Chicken among the four regions.
Out of the 3.7 million exotic/cross chicken national
wide, the Central Region had the biggest number with 2.4 million (64.5%) and
the Northern
Region had the least with 0.05 million (1.3%) as
shown.
Number
of Chicken by Breed and region
|
Region |
Exotic |
Indigenous |
Total |
|
Central |
2,398 |
4,291 |
6,689 |
|
Eastern |
854 |
7,382 |
8,236 |
|
Northern |
49 |
4,227 |
4,276 |
|
Western |
416 |
3,905 |
4,322 |
|
Total |
3,717 |
19,806 |
23,523 |
Fisheries Production
The total Fisheries production was estimated at 416.75Mt
from all the water bodies with Lake
Victoria that contributing 61% followed by L. Kyoga and L. Albert
as shown by the figure below.
Export
Performance of the agricultural sector
The contribution of Traditional Exports (TEs) (i.e
Coffee, Tea, Cotton and Tobacco) to the overall exports value has tremendously
declined over the period under review. During 2002 the share stood at 39.1
percent, and there after plunged to about 33 percent in the year 2005. Although there have been slight increases in
volumes exported for Tea, Tobacco and Cotton, the decline in
World market prices of these crops have earned less
foreign exchange than expected.
Coffee has maintained the lead as the main foreign
exchange earner, although its share to total export earnings declined from 20.7
percent in 2002 to 18.7 percent in 2004 then increased to 21.3 percent in 2005.
Although there was a reduction in the volume of coffee exported in 2005, coffee
earnings increased from US $ 124.2 million to US $ 172.9 million. This can be
attributed to the improvement in the international coffee prices. Tea
registered a substantial reduction in the earnings with exports share falling
from 7.2 percent in 2003 to 4.2 percent in 2005. Cotton share also reduced from
6.4 percent to 3.5 percent in 2004 and 2005 respectively. Meanwhile, the share
for tobacco to total exports reduced from 9.7 percent in 2002 to 3.9 percent in
2005
The slight change is attributed to the increased
effort by the government to boost non-traditional exports leading to increases
in the various NTE products such as Vanilla, Roses and Cut flowers, and, Fish
and fish products.
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and
Fisheries,
P. O. Box 102,
Tel: 256 41 320987/9, 320004.
Fax: 256 41 321047, 321010
Entebbe, Uganda.
Website:
Email:
psmaaif@infocom.co.ug