عنوان

Agricultural Extension Services and Smallholder Farmers Indebtedness in Northeastern Ghana

LA114847

انگلیسی

Agricultural Extension Services and Smallholder Farmers Indebtedness in Northeastern Ghana

[Article]

Steve Tonah

Leiden

Brill

Since the dismal performance of large scale irrigation projects set up in northern Ghana during the 1970s and 1980s, attempts at increasing agricultural production and improving the living conditions of the region's inhabitants have focused on supporting smallholder farmers in the area. Support for smallholder farming has concentrated mainly on expanding extension services and providing essential agricultural inputs on deferred payment basis. This study assesses the impact of the Agricultural Extension Services (AES), in particular, its credit schemes among smallholders in the Kassena-Nankani district. The problems associated with the introduction of the soya bean crop to farmers in Kajelo through the provision of inputs on credit basis and the consequent rising indebtedness of smallholders to the AES are examined.

1994

119-128

Journal of Asian and African Studies

29/1-2

1568-5217

African Studies

General

Steve Tonah

10.1163/156852194X00081

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[Article]

275578

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Y