NEW APPROACHES TO AGRICULTURAL
EXTENSION SERVICE IN UGANDA
Actors involved in extension services
Uganda was strongly involved in the use of pubic extension
services to improve agricultural production. Ministry
of agriculture and government agencies adopted the
training and visit extension system that was sponsored by
donor agencies. Donors were usually inflexible in the way
in which they provide funds. In this wise, research and
training programmes fell short of meeting the farmers
need, efforts were duplicated due to poor coordination
between public extension outfit and some Non
Governmental Organizations involved in the provision of
extension services. Poor road network, unattractive
market prices for agricultural produce continued to serve
as barriers to effective extension services. With the introduction
of liberalization and globalization, a policy that
stimulated decentralization and privatization of extension
services became popular in Uganda (Mundy and Sultan,
2001).