Despite some slowing in the past few quarters, productivity in the nonfarm business sector has risen at an average annual rate of about 3 percent over the past 5-1/2 years. Many economists, including myself, use growth accounting as a framework for analyzing productivity developments. In its simplest terms, growth accounting decomposes the growth rate of labor productivity into two major components.
It is unrealistic to expect that Uganda’s agricultural performance can be turned around by ignoring smallholders and focussing instead on large farms. Furthermore, small farms generate higher value added per acre than medium sized farms which in turn are more productive than  BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  large farms.