THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

1 THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Agriculture Sector Strategic Plan 2015/16-2019/20 Draft April 2016 ASSP 2015/16 to 2019/20 Draft i Table of Contents Table of Contents .. i List of Tables .. v List of Figures .. vi Acronyms and Abbreviations ..vii Executive Summary .. i 1 INTRODUCTION .. 1 Background .. 1 Structure of the agriculture 1 Purpose of the ASSP .. 1 Context of the ASSP .. 2 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals .. 2 Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme.

2 3 UGANDA Vision 2040 .. 4 National Development Plan II .. 4 Operation Wealth Creation .. 6 The National Agriculture Policy .. 6 Process of developing the ASSP .. 6 Principles underpinning the ASSP .. 7 Structure of the ASSP .. 8 2 SECTOR SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS .. 9 Agricultural sector contribution to the national economy .. 9 Growth and contribution to GDP .. 9 Contribution towards poverty reduction .. 10 Contribution to exports .. 11 Budget allocations to the sector .. 13 Agricultural sector performance under DSIP .. 13 Production and productivity .. 14 Markets and value addition.

3 19 ASSP 2015/16 to 2019/20 Draft ii Enabling environment .. 20 Institutional strengthening .. 20 Challenges faced during the DSIP period .. 22 Crop related 22 Livestock and fisheries related challenges .. 23 Lessons learnt and opportunities from DSIP .. 23 3 THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION OF THE SECTOR .. 25 ASSP s vision, mission, objectives and outcome indicators .. 25 Sector growth priorities and interventions .. 25 Priority 1: Increasing agricultural production and productivity.

4 26 Priority 2: Increasing access to critical farm inputs .. 31 Priority 3: Improving access to agricultural markets and value addition .. 38 Priority 4: Institutional and enabling environment strengthening .. 42 Strategic interventions for priority and strategic commodities .. 51 Commodity 1: Bananas .. 51 Commodity 2: Beans .. 51 Commodity 3: Maize .. 52 Commodity 4: Rice .. 52 Commodity 5: Cassava .. 53 Commodity 6: Irish Potatoes .. 53 Commodity 7: Tea .. 53 Commodity 8: Coffee .. 54 Commodity 9: Fruits and vegetables .. 55 Commodity 10: Dairy .. 56 Commodity 11: Fish.

5 56 Commodity 12: Meat and animal/ insect based products .. 57 Commodity S1: Cocoa .. 59 Commodity S2: Cotton .. 60 Commodity S3: Oil seeds .. 60 ASSP 2015/16 to 2019/20 Draft iii Commodity S4: Oil palm .. 61 Cross-cutting issues .. 62 Rationale and outline of the 62 Strategic interventions .. 62 4 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR IMPLEMENTING ASSP .. 66 The role and mandate of MAAIF .. 66 Implementation institutional arrangements .. 67 Direct implementation .. 67 Collaboration with MDAs.

6 67 Sector wide approach framework .. 67 Agricultural ecological zones in ASSP implementation .. 69 Sector coordination .. 71 5 ASSP COST AND FINANCIAL PLAN .. 73 Context of financial plan .. 73 Budgeting approach and methodology .. 73 Provisions of the constrained budget .. 73 Provisions of unconstrained budget .. 75 Resource mobilisation .. 76 Support from development partners .. 76 Support from the private sector .. 77 Financial management arrangements .. 77 Absorption capacity .. 77 Return on investment .. 77 6 MONITORING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK .. 78 M&E framework and process.

7 78 M&E coordination and outcomes .. 78 Monitoring of ASSP Implementation .. 1 Evaluation of ASSP 1 ASSP Logical Framework .. 2 ASSP 2015/16 to 2019/20 Draft iv ANNEXES .. 5 Annex A: Summary of activities along value chains of priority/ strategic commodities .. 5 Annex B: Crop, livestock and fisheries production targets for 2015 - 2019 in metric tons.. 8 Annex C: Agricultural commodity export targets for 2015/16 2019/20 in US$ millions .. 9 Explanatory notes to Annexes B and C .. 10 Annex D: Indicative budget (UGX billions), constrained by the NDPII budget.

8 13 Annex E: Indicative ideal budget (UGX Billions) .. 40 Annex F: Indicative ideal budget (UGX billions), by commodity and thematic area .. 70 ASSP 2015/16 to 2019/20 Draft v List of Tables Table 1: Baseline Status and Vision Targets for Selected Indicators in Vision 2040 .. 4 Table 2: NDP-II Key Development Results and Targets .. 5 Table 3: Agricultural sector growth rates 2010-2014 .. 9 Table 4: Agriculture sector contribution to GDP 2010-2014 .. 10 Table 5: UGANDA s agricultural exports 2010-2014 (US$,000).

9 11 Table 6: Budgetary allocation to the agriculture sector, 2012/13-2015/16 .. 13 Table 7: Percentage change in area planted, production and yields of main food crops .. 15 Table 8: Production of main cash crops (000 tonnes) .. 16 Table 9: Distribution of fish catches by lake (thousand tonnes)-2010-2014 .. 18 Table 10: Matrix of sector player and their roles .. 67 Table 11: Mapping of priority and strategic commodities in UGANDA s agricultural zones .. 70 Table 12: Constrained ASSP budget 2015/16-2019/20 .. 74 Table 13: Unconstrained (or Ideal) ASSP budget 2015/16-2019/20 .. 75 Table 14: Monitoring and Evaluation Schedule.

10 1 Table 15: Logical Framework Matrix for M&E .. 3 ASSP 2015/16 to 2019/20 Draft vi List of Figures Figure 1: Composition of the agriculture sector .. 2 Figure 2: The ASSP planning and formulation process .. 7 Figure 3: UGANDA 's agricultural exports (US$000) 2009-2014 .. 11 Figure 4: Livestock numbers (000 animals) 2010-2014 .. 17 Figure 5: Map showing agricultural production zones of UGANDA .. 69 ASSP 2015/16 to 2019/20 Draft vii Acronyms and Abbreviations AASPs Agricultural Advisory Service Providers AEZ Agricultural Ecological Zones AIT Artificial Insemination Technicians AOP Annual Operational Plan ARM Agriculture Risk Management ARSP Agricultural Rural Service Providers ASCS Agricultural Sector Communication Strategy ASSP Agriculture Sector Strategic Plan ASWG Agriculture Sector Working Group ATAAS Agricultural Technology And Agribusiness Advisory Services ATI Agricultural Training