Household objectives and achievement levels among Uganda’s hot pepper, french beans and okra crops farmers
Abstract
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Ugandan farmers are increasingly adopting perceived High
Value Crops (HVCs) including Chillies (Capsicum annum),
French beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), and Okra (Abelmoschus
esculentus). This is aimed at addressing priority household
objective of increasing incomes. This paper aimed at
determining the priority problems that farmers’ strive to achieve
when they adopt these HVCs and the extent to which the
objectives are achieved. Empirical results show that among
the priority objectives, payment of school fees, investing in trade,
good cash flow, procurement of more land, medical care,
purchase of livestock and a car or motorcycle, only the fees
objective were being achieved using HVCs income.
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