Enhancing potato production and market access in Uganda
Abstract
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Potato value chain in Uganda is characterised by many scattered
small farmers and buyers facing high transaction costs, resulting
from lack of mutually beneficial linkages between actors in the
chain and market coordination problems in terms of quantity,
quality and varieties. These problems contribute to low adoption
of improved production technologies and consequent low
productivity, which, in turn, contribute to limited access to
profitable markets. The project will identify and analyse
constraints along the value chain that hinder potato producers
from accessing profitable markets. It will also identify and
evaluate value-chain empowerment strategies that have the
potential to link farmers to such markets. The identified
strategies will be discussed with the key value chain actors and
the potential ones selected, tested and recommended. The project
will contribute to capacity building through degree training and
creating a forum for involvement of value chain actors in
interactive learning and knowledge sharing.
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