Table 2.

Contents of the interviews with the village leaders.

1. Sociological information

a. Total number of households, number of full-time farming households

b. Cost of transportation to Kampala city centre by public means

c. Time to nearest trading centre on foot

d. Provision of public facilities (electricity, piped water supply, sewage pipe, garbage collection service, road light)

e. Recent improvement of public facilities (less than 5 years)

f. The number of ongoing land disputes between old residents and new comer, agriculture and non-agriculture

g. The number of schools (public and private primary school and secondary school)

h. Perception of pollution (no, feel, very much)

i. Speed of population change

j. Direction of migration (from village or city)

2. Agricultural information

a. Numbers of tomato, cooking banana, maize, rice, green vegetable farmers

b. Numbers of those farmers who sell to markets in Kampala

c. Numbers of those farmers who sell to nearby trading centre

d. Destination of the products

e. Purpose of their farming

f. Numbers of large scale crop and vegetable farmers with more than 10 acre land