Northern GhanaProbit modelPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore smallholder agricultural financing in Ghana鈥檚 Northern region by identifying farmers鈥preferred traditional and innovative financing methods and estimating the determinants of use of innovative financing methods. Design/methodology/...
Maize in Ghana: An Overview of Cultivation to Processing Maize (Zea mays L.) cultivation in Ghana has been ongoing for centuries. Maize production in Ghana, is predominantly done under rain-fed conditions by poorly resourced smallholder farmers. The agro-ecological zones for maize cultivation ......
The cultivation of Maize and Guinea corn in the northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria is faced with lots of Crop protection problems which hinder full scale production of these crops in that ecological zone. The problems range from biotic factors like vertebrate and invertebrate pests, disease pathogens...
We find that when we control for transfer costs, markets in the Southern Africa region can be expected to perform in accordance with economic theory; a... WJ Burke 被引量: 27发表: 2012年 Spatial Price Transmission and Market Integration in Agricultural Markets after Liberalization in Ghana: Evi...
Once the parameter fitting was satisfactory, the validation area was verified to check the performance of the model in this region. Furthermore, a cross validation that is incorporated in CLIMEX was performed, using two maps of current maize distribution based on productivity69, 70. The agreement...
Despite the immense benefits maize offers, its production in SSA is hindered by several constraints such as pests and diseases, leading to low yields that fail to meet demand. Maize production in Ghana can increase to that of the global average of 4–5 t ha−1 and eventually to 8 t ha...
1). Agriculture is dominantly rain-fed in all three regions, but farmers use irrigation in pocket areas to produce vegetables. The rainfall is erratic and dry spells are common causing production shocks. The soils in northern Ghana have low fertility with organic matter content of < 20 g/kg,...
caused by factors, such as inherently poor soils, continuous cropping of cereal after cereal, high cost and unavailability of chemical fertilizers, continuous crop-residue removal, and soil erosion and run-off, have all contributed to low soil fertility and reduced maize yields in northern Ghana. ...
AMELIORATING SOIL ACIDITY IN GHANA: A CONCISE REVIEW OF APPROACHES The paper concisely reviews the causes and effects of soil acidity and the approaches used to ameliorate acid soils for sustained crop production in Ghana. Acid soils which are characterized as toxic and impoverished, posing serious ...
It is widely cultured in many tropica... G Mm - 《Open Access Journal》 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 Yield and Growth Response of Maize (Zea mays L.) to Varietal and Nitrogen Application in the Guinea Savanna Agro-Ecology of Ghana The objective of the research was to evaluate maize varietal ...