AGR1204 Agricultural Economics

This is an introductory course in Economics at the basic level. It covers microeconomics and macroeconomics issues, with particular reference to agriculture in Uganda.

Course Objectives
At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• provide beginning students with the basic economic tools that will enable them appreciate the economic systems of the world and how an economy works.
• derive basic economic relationships and concepts and their applications to households and firms, using geometry and basic calculus.
• explain the basic concepts of economics as related to agricultural production.
• apply the basic concepts of economics to agricultural production.