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Kusasira, Nkurumah Edwin (2023) Examination of the challenges facing the modernization of dairy farming practices in Uganda. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.
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The study was aimed at examining the challenges facing modernization of dairy farming practices in Uganda. Modernization of dairy farming operations in Uganda is a complex and multifaceted task that spans agriculture, economics, technology, and socio-cultural aspects. This study sought to explore the major problems encountered in Uganda's process of upgrading dairy farming techniques. However, the study firstly examined the success that has been achieved by the Ugandan government with the objective of moving dairy farming practices in Uganda to modernization before examining the different challenges.
The researcher used a mixed method approach research design and the study results were obtained using questionnaires and interview guides from a sample of 60 respondents and results were analyzed and presented using frequencies, percentages and descriptive statistics. The study established the advantages created due to modernization of dairy farming which included the establishment of the Dairy Development Authority mandated with supporting farmers in dairy value addition, ensuring quality assurance and domestic dairy consumption promotion, supporting farmers with veterinary services and supporting farmers with in marketing dairy products, establishment of market for dairy products and provision of incentives to farm inputs and tax waivers on dairy products and input materials.
This study recommends that the government and the Dairy Development Authority should participate in stabilizing prices for dairy products, source for market of dairy products as a morale booster to modernization of dairy farming, put incentives and tax waivers to dairy farming inputs and milk products, increased capacity building for farmers and increase funding to the dairy farming sector.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Supervisors: | Name Email Heywood Jones, Richard UNSPECIFIED |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Specific Industries > Agriculture Industry H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory > Entrepreneurship H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Organisational Change |
| Divisions: | School of Business > Master of Science in Entrepreneurship |
| Depositing User: | Tamara Malone |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2024 10:04 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2024 10:04 |
| URI: | https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/7007 |
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