A Comparison of Agricultural Labour Productivity of Maize, Beans and Matooke in Uganda
Abstract
Improving productivity is a major concern for any profit-oriented organization as it represents
the effective and efficient conversion of resources into marketable products and determining
business profitability The labour costs are an important part of any business. Different authors
have revealed that labour costs represent around 33% to 50% of the overall costs of a given
project. Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods and services expressed by some
measure. Productivity in economics measures the output per unit of input such as labour, capital
or any other resource. Labour productivity is thus the number of units produced per employee
in a manufacturing business. Using a 2003 cross section collected from 123 communities in 8
of Uganda’s 111 districts, Peterman et al., 2011b estimates the size of the raw gender gap (the
difference in mean value of crop production per acre between female and male farmers) for
these areas to be 50%. This productivity gap remains statistically significant even after
controlling for farmer and plot characteristics, inputs applied, and household fixed effects. The
2010 DSIP highlights the potential, in this context, for gender targeted interventions to achieve
large productivity increases. This work is going to put emphasis on acquiring the labour
productivity of the hired labour, family labour men, women urban and rural farm workers
participating in the Uganda’s agricultural labour force, and it seeks to provide us with the
necessary ways of boosting this productivity, in line with the implementation of the PDM.
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