This presentation provides key findings of the Annual Agricultural Survey 2019 about the Household Characteristics

1. Uganda Bureau of Statistics
Annual Agricultural Survey 2019
Key Findings
Diana Nabukalu
Statistician – Crop Statistics
Department of Production and Environment Statistics

2. Uganda Bureau of Statistics
Household characteristics & Farm
practices

3. Distribution of Ag HHs
by ZARDI
ZARDI % AgHHs
Abi 7.3
Buginyanya 21.6
Bulindi 7
Kachwekano 4.4
Mukono 19.9
Ngetta 10.9
Nubin 2.7
Mbarara 5.3
Rwebitaba 12.6
Serere 8.4
Total 100.0

4. Sex of Ag Household Heads and ZARDI
60
72 74 77 78 79 79 82 82 85
78
40
28 26 23 22 21 21 19 18 15
22
Nabuin Abi Mukono Mbarara Serere Kachwekano Ngetta Rwebitaba Buginyanya Bulindi Uganda
Male Headed HHs Female Headed HHs
• In Uganda, about 8 in
every 10 Ag HHs are
headed by male
• The proportion is similar
in all ZARDIs Except in
NABUIN where it is 6
male headed against 4
female headed in every
10 Ag HHs.

5. Literacy of Agricultural
Household heads
75
42
19
61 64 66
76
67
73 75 73
68 68
Nabuin Serere Bulindi Buginyanya Ngetta Abi Kachwekano Mbarara Rwebitaba Mukono Uganda
Male Ag HH heads Female Ag HHs heads All Ag HH heads
• In Uganda, 68% of Ag HH heads
(about 7 in every 10) are literate i.e.
Can read and write any language.
• Within Sex analysis shows that the %
of literate female Ag HHHs (42%)
based on total female Ag HHHs is
less compared to their male (75%)
colleagues (based on total male).
• The Within ZARDI analysis shows
that Ngetta ZARDI (76%) had the
highest % of its Ag hh heads who
were literate, followed by Mbarara
(75%) while Nabuin (19%) had the
least.

6. Education level of Ag Households
Heads
9
36
15
59
49
57
32
15
28
Male Ag HH Heads Female Ag HH Heads All Ag HH Heads
No Education Primary Secondary and +
At national level, most Ag HH
heads (57%) had attained
primary education compared
to others levels.
• Within sex analysis shows
that more female Ag HH
heads (36%) had no
education compared to
their male counterparts
(9%) among members of Ag
HHs

7. Households heads engaged
mainly in Agricultural Activities (%)
66 66
70 72
84 86 86 86 88
93
77
Kachwekano Mbarara Mukono Buginyanya Bulindi Nabuin Ngetta Rwebitaba Abi Serere Uganda
• In Uganda, 77% of Ag HH heads (8 in
every 10) mainly engage in
agriculture as their main economic
activity.
• Within ZARDI analysis showed that;
Serere Area (93%) had the highest
percentage of the category, followed
by Abi (88%).
• Kachwekano with 66 percent had
the least in the category.

8. Trainings in the past 12 months
1
3
4 4 5 5
6
7
8 8
5
Serere Abi Mbarara Rwebitaba Nabuin Mukono Buginyanya Ngetta Bulindi Kachwekano Uganda
% of Ag HHs with at least a member trained on
agriculture
(in past 12 months)
• Overall, 5% of Ag HH had
atleast a member who
had received some
training in agriculture.
• Kachwekano andv
Bulindi ZARDIs with 8
percent had the highest
percentage of the
category.
• Serere with 1 percent
had the least in the
category.

9. Agricultural households by type of enterprise
Enterprise
• 2 in every 10 Ag hhs were engaged in
Only crop production (21.8%)
• 8 in every 10 Ag hhs were engaged in
Crop production and other ag
activities: (77.5%)
• Less than one percent were engaged
in Only other ag activities (0.7%)
Only crop
production, 21.8
Crop production
and other ag
activities, 77.5
Only other ag
activities, 0.7
1
26
39
23
38
17
52
61
49 20
68
18
0
14
24
14
3 0
14 18
Crop Livestock Aquaculture Apiculture Agroforestry
Distribution of Main purpose by Enterprise at national level
Only for sale Mainly for sale Mainly for own consumption Only for own consumption

10. Distribution of Ag activities by main purpose
1
26
39
23
38
17
52
61
49 20
68
18
0
14
24
14
3 0
14
18
Crop Livestock Aquaculture Apiculture Agroforestry
Only for sale Mainly for sale Mainly for own consumption Only for own consumption
• Most Crop farming HHs in
Uganda (68%) carry it out with
the purpose of mainly own
consumption.
• WHILE, Most Ag HHs that
practice Livestock keeping
(52%) , Aquaculture (61%),
Apiculture (49%) have their
main purpose as Mainly sale
• Most households that
practiced Agro forestry did so
only for sale (38%)

11. Average holding size
Average Holding size
(Ha = 2.47 acres)
Abi 0.7
Buginyanya 0.8
Bulindi 1.8
Kachwekano 0.4
Mukono 1.4
Ngetta 2.6
Nabuin 1.2
Serere 1.4
Mbarara 1.5
Rwebitaba 0.8
Uganda 1.3
• Nationally, the average
holding size for Ag HHs
was 1.3 hectares of
land.
• By ZARDI, Ngetta
records the highest
average holding size,
with 2.6 Hectares per
Ag HH.

12. Distribution of parcels by use right
Owned
82%
Rented
11%
Other use
rights
7%
Parcels, by use right (%)
4 5 11 14
26 29
39 43 45 52
30
% parcels by presence of a legally recognized document to
certify the tenure rights
• In 2019, about 8 in every 10 ha of
parcels land used for agriculture were
owned by the Ag HHs. (Only 1 in every
10 ha was rented in)
• 3 in every 10 parcels had a legally
recognized document to certify tenure
rights

13. SDG indicator 5.a.1:
Men and women tenure rights
 Ag Population with ownership or secure tenure rights
over ag land – SDG 5.a.1 part a
• Nationally 41% of adults in the Agric popn had
secure rights over agric land
• 5 in every 10 adult men have secure rights
over agric land
• 3 in every 10 adult women have secure rights
over agric land
 Share of women among owners or right holders
– SDG 5.a.1 part b
• 4 in every 10 right holders are women
(39%)
52
30
41
0
50
100
Men Women Uganda
% adults (18+) in ag population with ownership or secure rights over ag
land , by sex
[SDG5a1-part a]
24
36 36
51
33 38
51
22
49
42 39
0
20
40
60
80
100
share of women among owners or rights holders [SDG 5a1 - part b]

14. Crop plots by sex of plot manager
3
4
9
3
5
2
1
2
3
5
4
5
5
5
6
5
4
10
4
3
3
5
92
91
87
91
90
94
90
94
93
92
91
Abi
Buginyanya
Bulindi
Kachwekano
Mukono
Ngetta
Nabuin
Serere
Mbarara
Rwebitaba
UGANDA
Solely Men Solely Women Jointly Men and Women
 Ag crop plots by sex of plot
manager
• Most crop plots (91%) were
jointly managed
• Solely Men: 4%
• Solely Women: 5%

15. Ag HHs using irrigation in
at least one plot in 2019 (%)
0.3
2.1
2.3
3.1
4.0
4.4
5.0
5.3
5.5
8.0
4.6
0 20 40 60 80 100
Nabuin
Rwebitaba
Ngetta
Abi
Buginyanya
Serere
Mbarara
Bulindi
Kachwekano
Mukono
Uganda
% Ag HHs using irrigation in at least one plot
 Percentage Ag HHs using
irrigation on at least one plot
• 5%

16. Inputs (I)
96
80
96
98
98
94
95
97
90
98
94
14
6
16
25
20
32
38
39
43
48
32
Kachwekano
Nabuin
Mbarara
Rwebitaba
Serere
Buginyanya
Bulindi
Abi
Mukono
Ngetta
UGANDA
Ag HHs by type of seeds used (%)
improved traditional
 Percentage Ag HHs
by seed type used
• Improved: 32%
• Traditional: 94%

17. Input Use (II)
11
32
27
70
47
4 2
32
74
20
35
13
26
46
38
45
23
2
43
17
34 30
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
% Ag HHs using fertilizers and pesticides, by ZARDI
using fertilizes using pesticides
7
21
9
63
35
1 2
31
70
6
27
4
17 21 17 20
3 0 1 7
15 13
0 3 0
24
5 0 0 0 2 0 2
0
20
40
60
80
100
% Ag HHs by type of fertilizers used
only organic only inorganic both
10 23
5
0.3
0
20
40
60
80
100
% HHs using pesticides, by type of pesticide
Herbicides Insecticide Fungicides Rodenticides
• Nationally, 35% of Ag hhs reported
using fertilizers in 2019 an increase
from 25% in 2018
• Nationally, 30% of Ag hhs reported
using pesticides up from 22% in 2018
• 3 in every 10 hhs used only organic
fertilizers, 1 in every 10 hhs used only
inorganic fertilizers while 2 percent of
Ag hhs reported using both

18. Ag HHs that received extension services
in the previous 12 months (%)
13 14
9
17
13 14
7
5
13 13 12
4
6 7 5 5
9
0 1
3 5 5
Abi Buginyanya Bulindi Kachwekano Mukono Ngetta Nabuin Serere Mbarara Rwebitaba Uganda
2018 2019
• In 2019, the number of hh that
received extension services dropped to
5 percent from 12 percent in 2018.
• A similar downward trend can be seen
across all the ZARDIs

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