Uganda Agriculture
Labour force, Employment and Earnings
• Uganda’s working population increased from 12.9 million in 2009/10 to 13.9 million in 2012/13.
• The proportion of working females decreased from 52 percent in 2009/10 to 51 percent in 2012/13.
• 72 percent of the working population was engaged in the Agriculture sector in 2012/13.
• Only 23.5 percent of the females in the work force have attained at least secondary school
• Majority of jobs advertised (49.5 percent) were in the Public Administration Sub sector in 2014.
Income and expenditure
• There was a five percent increase in monthly household expenditure between 2009/10 and 2012/13.
• The Western region registered the highest growth in consumtion Per Capita of 27 percent
• The proportion of the poor population reduced from 24.5 percent to 19.7 percent corresponding to
about 6.7 million people between 2009/10 and 2012/13.
• 46 percent of the household expenditure was on food, beverages and tobacco.
• Nationally, on average, income inequality reduced from 0.426 to 0.395 between 2009/10 and 2012/13.
• 18 percent of the population in Uganda was chronically poor across the survey periods 2011/12 and
2013/14.
• The chronically poor were more likely to be in households residing in rural areas (21 percent).
• 21 percent of the people in the rural households are more likely to be chronically poor
• 26 percent of all people in Northern Uganda are like to be chronically poor
Agriculture Production Statistics
• Area planted for Food crops stood at 918,000 Hectares in 2014.
• A total of 4,578,000 tonnes of Bananas were produced in 2014.
• About 3,700,000 tonnes of Cereal crops were produced in 2014.
• In 2014, 461 million tones of Fish was caught in Uganda’s water bodies.
GDP Percentage
Contribution of agriculture to GDP at current market prices stood at 24.7 percent
Land Area
Land areas for Grasslands and Water bodies remained the same between 1990 and 2005. However, the
land area for Grasslands increased by 3.9 percent between 2005 and 2010 while that for Water bodies
reduced by one percent over the same period. Area under forest has significantly been decreasing since
1990. It decreased by 28.5 percent between 2005 and 2010. Land area for agriculture increased by 12.4
percent between 1990 and 2000, and by 4.7 percent between 2000 and 2005. It however decreased by
8.6 percent between 2005 and 2010.
Notably, built-up area significantly increased by more than 10 folds between 2005 and 2010. Land area for
bushlands also significantly increased to 24,705.9 sq km in the same period. The changes are illustrated in
Figure 1.2 while the data is presented in Table 1.1.1 and Statistical Appendix Table 1.1 A to C.
Forest Cover
In 2010, Uganda had a total of 2.6 million hectares of forest land compared to 4.9 million hectares in
1990. This is a reduction of 46.9 percent over a period of 20 years. As a proportion, in 1990, forests
covered 20.4 percent of the land area of the country. Table 1.2.1 gives the forest cover areas and
changes between 1990, 2005 and 2010. In 2005, Uganda had a total of 3.6 million hectares of forest
land compared to 4.9 million hectares in 1990. This is a reduction of 36.0 percent over a period of 15
years. Table 1.2.1 below shows that the total deforestation rate per year (between 1990 and 2005)
was 1.8 percent per annum, while that between 2005 and 2010 was 5.4 percent per annum
Local and Central Forest Reserves
The proportion of land under Central Forest Reserve (CFR) was higher than the Local Forest Reserve
(LFR) in all the regions as established through the National Bio-mass Study, 2005. The within region
comparison showed that the Eastern region had the largest proportion under LFR (2.6 percent) while
Western Region had the lowest proportion (0.1 percent).
Production of Round Wood
. In 2014, Uganda produced 46.6 million tonnes of round wood worth Shs 774 billion, registering an
increment of 12.1 percent in value from 2013
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