The Central Bank itself started in 2004 a series of seminars on new financial instruments and proposes to continue this in 2005. Capacity building and infrastructural development Though efforts have been intensified towards developing a more diversified financial system, responses in some areas have been lukewarm.
The strategic objective of agricultural policy should be to help Uganda’s smallholders to adopt good agricultural practices, produce more output for the market and to start to use modern farm inputs. The first step towards agricultural modernization is an effective agricultural extension service which can reach the mass of smallholder farmers and encourage them, through technical advice and demonstrations, to adopt good agricultural practices.