Coffee and prosperity in Buganda: Some aspects of economic and social change

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Title:	Coffee and prosperity in Buganda: Some aspects of economic and social change
Author:	Senteza Kajubi, W.
Year:	1965
Periodical:	Uganda Journal (ISSN 0041-574X)
Volume:	29
Issue:	2
Pages:	135-147
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Uganda
Subjects:	coffee economic development
Abstract:	The exchange economic base of Uganda rests on two crops, cotton and coffee, which in 1963 accounted for 80.6 per cent of the value of the domestic exports. For over fifty years raw cotton was 'king'. In 1955 green coffee surpassed cotton as the principal export item. Buganda produces about 92 per cent of the total robusta coffee exports, and abour 30 per cent of Uganda's total cotton crop, although it has only 21 per cent of the land area, and 28 percent of the total population. The cultivation of coffee is a more profitable activity than cotton growing, and is giving rise in Buganda to a new class of farmers managing relatively large estates, involving capital investment and the use of hired labour. The central objective of this paper is to provide a brief survey of the development of coffee growing in Buganda and its relationship to the political, economic and social development of Buganda. Notes; tables; figures.