Forms of peasant agricultural cooperatives in Uganda :: a case study in Lango

This study set out to investigate the extent to which the character of the forms of capital that penetrated the Uganda economy in general, and Lango in particular, has contributed to the reproduction of non-capitalist forms of peasant co-operatives in agriculture within the context of the development of the state-regulated form of peasant co­ operatives; and how the interaction
between the two resulted in contradictions differentiation in that Lango overtime led social formations. to The social basic
assumption of the study is that the character of capital that penetrated Lango society resulted in the transformation/subJugation of forms of peasant co-operative organizations it articulated with, to the degree that their autonomy have largely been compromised in the interest of capital; and that the character of both the colonial and post-colonial state greatly impacted on the trends of the development of peasant co-operatives in Uganda as a whole and Lango in particular. The result of the findings basically confirm these assumptions. It reveals that there exist a dynamic interaction or articulation of production relations between non-capitalist and capitalist forms. And that within this