mango (Mangifera indica L.) is a crop which is assuming great economic importance in Ghana. There is limited empirical information on the current status of the mango farming business to justify the growing interest in ...

This study investigated technological changes in shea butter production in the Yendi District of Ghana and how processing could further be improved. A qualitative research and analysis of six communities and 36 shea butter ...

Subsistence vegetable farming is a way of survival for most women in the rural areas of Ghana. To make this survival a reality, they need to manage their external environment in order to secure their livelihoods. The paper ...

A conventional approach to analysing asymmetric price transmission involves the use of the Houck’s static model. This paper compares this time invariant approach to a dynamic variant of the model. The static model is a ...

Spatial price analysis is important in explaining market performance and the degree of integration. This study therefore provides an econometric analysis of plantain markets integration. Using co integration analyses and ...

Farm credit can stimulate the transfer of technology into agriculture and hence lead to increased crop yield. However, most often than not farmers are faced with the problem of loans received being far lower than what ...

In most countries procurement is undervalued compared to the attention paid to other key areas of Public Sector Reforms. Ghana represents a case in point. Under the health reforms in Ghana, the Ministry of Health and ...

The Ghanaian public and government have come to realise that the use of chemical pesticides by vegetable farmers to control pests and diseases in the country is increasing and if agricultural production is to be sustainable ...

Increased agricultural productivity is important for development and poverty reduction in Africa. However, productivity levels in African agriculture is very low and strategies for improving them have not produced the ...

This study analyses market integration and price transmission in selected agricultural markets in Ghana. The Johansen co-integration procedure, Granger Causality test and autoregressive distributed lag model were applied ...