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After providing an overview of rice sector development in Uganda, this chapter examines the effects of two technology dissemination programs on the enhancement of rice production in Eastern and Northern Uganda. One program was a JICA conventional training program that provided on-the-job training at demonstration plot s three to four times a year, while the other was to distribute a rice cultivation guidebook to households that were randomly selected. The training program was shown to have improved rice productivity significantly. In contrast, there were no significant effects of the distribution of the guidebook on technology adoption or rice production. Although the distribution of the guidebook was less costly and easier to implement than the training program, distribution of the guidebook alone cannot be a substitute for conventional training programs.
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Notes
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While this massive increase (2008–2011) seemingly contradicts the FAO statistics cited above in the Introduction (2009–2011), there was a sharp increase in rice production between 2008 and 2009.
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For the Northern districts, only those that are around Lake Kyoga are considered as population.
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The information was obtained from the district agricultural officer in each district.
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See Kijima et al. (2012) for the further information on the JICA training project.
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As shown in Appendix Table 4.9, characteristics of the training participants and non-participants are significantly different in CS sample.
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Given that the randomization is preferred to the matching method, the results of ATT without matching are estimated and compared with the results with matching.
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Regarding the decision to grow rice, the effect of JICA training cannot be estimated since all the households selected grew rice at the time of the sampling.
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Access to water is measured by a dummy indicating that the rice plot depends only on rainfall (compared with the plots with additional water sources such as canals or wells).
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The results without matching for ES are provided in Appendix Table 4.11.
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Income and expenditure are in natural logarithm form.
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Kijima, Y. (2016). On the Possibility of Rice Green Revolution in Rainfed Areas in Uganda: Impact Evaluation of a Management Training Program and Guidebook Distribution. In: Otsuka, K., Larson, D. (eds) In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 48. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55693-0_4
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