The study estimates the rate of technological change in Uganda’s agriculture during 2005-2010,
and across the 4 major regions of the country. Using a nationally representative household panel
data set, a time trend variable in the stochastic production frontier was used to account for hicksneutral
technological change. The frontier is then re-modelled using binary time trend dummy
variables to capture the temporal pattern of technological change. Overall it was found that
technological progress was small and insignificant of 0.031% but further decomposition at
regional level revealed more interesting findings. The western region had technological progress
at 0.6%, and the central region had technological regress of 0.57%, both significant at 5% level.
The northern region had technological progress at 0.008% and the eastern region had
technological regress of 0.11% both insignificant at 5% level. The findings suggest that more
public and private investments in region-specific technology development would be required to
accelerate technological progress especially in the northern and eastern regions of the country.
Alternatively with the existing level of investment, effort should be made to address the
institutional issues that constrain efficient dissemination of the technologies developed from the
National Agricultural Research System