Improving on-farm transport using animal draught power in two hilly districts of Western Uganda
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1999-08-08
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Mpumalanga, South Africa
Abstract
Food crops are plagued by various constraints at different stages of the post harvest systems resulting in varrying
degrees of losses along the food pipeline. Poor on-farm transport methods constitute one of the major post
harvest constraints especially in hilly and mountainous terrain of Uganda. The use of animal traction has been
identified as an appropriate, affordable and sustainable technology to alleviate the drudgery in farm transport
and reduce the associated crop post-harvest losses.
Donkey transport technology has been successfully introduced in two of the mountainous districts of western
Uganda. This paper discusses the processes, methodologies and impact of the introduction of the technology on
the rural communities in the above area.
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Ayo-Odongo, J., Mutyaba, C., & Kalunda, P. (1999, September). Improving on-farm transport using animal draught power in two hilly districts of Western Uganda. In Empowering Farmers with Animal Traction. In Proceedings of the Workshop of the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa (ATNESA), Mpumalanga, South Africa (pp. 20-24).