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Developing Agricultural Market Information Systems
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Table 10: Existing MIS in Uganda (2016)
Name of
provider
Type of
provider
Product
coverage
Type of
information/services
Data collection
technology
Dissemination
technology
Information
users
Funding
National MIS
FARMGAIN
Africa Private Food
crops and
export
crops
Prices, stock
availability, product
flows, regional prices
and other advisory
services.
Interviews and
observation by
enumerators and
data from
regional sources.
Email, website,
mobile SMS farmers,
traders,
government Internal cross-
subsidies and
donors
AGRINET Private Food
crop for
domestic
market
Prices, stock
availability and traders. Interviews
observation by
enumerators email, website,
mobile SMS farmers,
traders,
government Internal cross-
subsidies and
donors
Infotrade. Private Food
crop for
domestic
market
Prices, stock
availability and traders. Interviews
observation by
enumerators email, website,
mobile SMS farmers,
traders,
government Internal cross-
subsidies and
donors
Uganda
Coffee
Development
Authority
(UCDA)
Public Coffee Local market prices;
export parity prices;
supply availability and
output forecasts.
Interviews by
field officers of
UCDA email, website,
mobile SMS farmers,
exporters
and government Government
and donors.
Regional MIS
Regional
Agricultural
Trade
Intelligence
Network
(RATIN)
NGO Food
crops
traded in
regional
market
Regional prices, stock
availability, product
flows, trading platform
(GSOKO)
Mainly sourced
from national
platforms email, website farmers,
traders,
government Internal cross-
subsidies and
donors
Betta Grains Private Food
crops
traded in
regional
market
Prices, stock
availability, product
flows, comparative
regional prices
Interviews and
observation by
enumerators and
sourcing from
national
platforms
email, website farmers,
traders,
government Internal cross-
subsidies and
donors
FEWSNET Donor Food
crops
traded in
regional
market
Local market prices;
regional prices; supply
availability; regional
produce flows and
output forecasts.
Sourcing from
national and
regional
platforms
email, website farmers,
traders,
government Donor.
Source: Authors.