The ultimate goal of any farmer is to get the maximum yield per unit area. To obtain a high yield, effective crop management practices, appeared to be of paramount value. Crop production in Uganda is faced with many challenges among which are: untimely planting, incorrect plant spacing, wrong method of planting, poor sowing depth, delayed weeding, ineffective pests, and diseases control, inappropriate use of fertilizers, untimely harvesting, and above all usage of low yielding varieties of seeds.
Such poor crop management practices become reflected in reduced crop growth and yield which invariably make farming to be physically strenuous and economically unrewarding in nature.
