Quick Scan of Uganda’s Forage Sub-Sector : Working Paper

This report describes Uganda's forage sub-sector.It looks at the current situation of available forage species and their quality, seasonality, preservation, forage seeds and planting material, fertilizer use, mechanisation, inputs and services, the forage market, education and training, innovations, environmentally sustainable forage production and policies and regulations affecting the forage sub-sector.The report gives recommendations to enhance availability of quality forages.The report is an output of Theme 2: Forages and nutrition of dairy cows, of the Netherlands East African Dairy Partnership project (NEADAP).NEADAP is an initiative by the Netherlands government for learning and sharing amongst different dairy sectors and projects in East Africa.This report can be downloaded free of charge from www.cowsoko.com/KMDPThe user may copy, distribute and transmit the work and create derivative works.Third-party material that has been used in the work and to which intellectual property rights apply, may not be used without prior permission of the third party concerned.The user must specify the name as stated by the author or license holder of the work, but not in such a way as to give the impression that the work of the user or the way in which the work has been used are being endorsed.The user may not use this work for commercial purposes.NEADAP and the implementing partners SNV, Agriterra, Wageningen UR and Bles Dairies accept no liability for any damage arising from the use of the results of this research or the application of the recommendations.Annex 1a.List of key resource persons Annex 1b.List of persons interviewed Annex 1c.List of participants validation workshop and workshop programme Annex 2. Mean annual rainfall in Uganda Annex 3. Map of mixed crop-livestock farming systems of Uganda Annex 4. Map of coverage of different types of soil in Uganda Annex 5. Forage species in Uganda Annex 6. Graphic representation of Integrated Soil Fertility Management Annex 7. Nitrogen fertilizer application per ha of cropland in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia Annex 8. Agro-Ecological Zones in Uganda Uganda Forage Sub-Sector Quick Scan -Working Paper -NEADAP, November 2019 vii