Technological Change in Uganda’s Agriculture between 2005-2010
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2014
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RUFORUM.
Abstract
The study estimates the rate of technological change in Uganda’s agriculture between 2005-
2010 across the 4 major regions of the country. Using a nationally representative household
panel data set, we use a time trend variable in the stochastic production frontier to account
for hicks-neutral technological change, then the frontier is re-modeled using binary time
trend dummy variables to capture the temporal pattern of technological change. Overall
we find that technological progress was small and insignificant of 0.031% but further
decomposition at regional level revealed more interesting findings. The western region had
technological progress at 0.6%, and the central region had technological regress of 0.57%,
both significant at the 5% level. The northern region had technological progress at 0.008%
and the eastern region had technological regress of 0.11% both insignificant at 5% level.
The findings suggest that more public and private investments in region-specific technology
development would be required to accelerate technological progress especially in the northern
and eastern regions of the country. Alternatively with the existing level of investment, effort
should be made to address the institutional issues that constrain efficient dissemination of
the technologies developed from the NARS.
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Hicks-neutral technological change, Technological progress/regress, Stochastic production frontier
Citation
Kalibwani, R. M., Mutenyo, J., & Kato, E. (2014). Technological change in Uganda’s agriculture between 2005-2010. In RUFORUM Fourth Biennial Conference, Maputo, Mozambique, 19-25 July 2014 (pp. 381-385). RUFORUM.