Smallholder farmers in Sierra Leone have limited competencies in rice post-harvest value addition (RPHVA). They rely on traditional technologies to manually harvest and process their rice after harvest. The study aimed at ...

Postharvest losses in plantain production negatively impact the profitability of smallholder farmers. The work studied the effect of 1-MCP gas (0, 15, 30, and 60 μl/l) on green mature plantains (Apentu) stored for 30 days ...

Ghana’s agriculture continues to suffer rudimentary practices by majority of smallholder farmers who also lack credit. It was for this reason that part of the US Millennium Challenge Account was committed to smallholders’ ...

Agricultural and food security is a concern in Sub-Saharan Africa and this has invited the intervention from both government and private sectors. Gold Fields Ghana (GFG), a leading gold mining company in Ghana is a significant ...

NGOs achieve their vision through projects but over the years the problem has been inadequate funding. This study used the SWOT Analysis to investigate the internal and external organizational factors that affect ...

The essence of this study was to examine inclusive business models that could promote the adoption of new technologies among smallholder vegetable farmers in the Denkyembour District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. ...

The most important cash crop in the agricultural production in Ghana remains cocoa due to its huge contributions to GDP, foreign exchange earnings, employment creation, poverty alleviation through the income generation ...

Cocoa is one of Ghana's leading products, contributing significantly to the world market. In the past, Ghana held the top position as the leading cocoa producer, supporting millions of jobs in the cocoa sector. However, ...

Cocoa has been the most important cash crop in Ghana, contributing significantly to the country’s GDP and providing a significant source of income for a lot of households. The government, in trying to support the cocoa ...

Over the past decades, the Governments of Ghana have been committed to ensuring the attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals on hunger and to bringing the socio-economic situation to a level, which ...