Table 3.

Draft cattle work output in Tororo district

Output Parameter	Duration	Standard deviation (SD)
Age at which work oxen start work	2.6	0.6
Age at which working life ends	11.1	2.4
Time for a pair of draft cattle to plow one acre of land (days)	2.2	0.7
Hours worked per day	4.3	0.4
Days worked plowing own farm per year	16.1	2.5
Days worked plowing other people’s farm per year	35.3	8.2
Days worked doing other draft work per year	0.2	0.4
Total days worked per year	51.6	6.8