Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Adoption of Codapec and Cocoa High-tech Technologies among Small Holder Farmers in Central Region of Ghana

Baffoe-Asare, Richard; Danquah, Jones Abrefa; Annor-Frempong, Festus

doi:10.9734/ajea/2013/1969

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“…Education increases the likelihood of adopting improved maize varieties and can be explained by the fact that education increases the capacity of farmers to obtain and analyze the information about innovations to make the best decisions (Feder & Slade, ). Finally, agricultural training also has a positive and significant effect on maize yields at 5%, which was also found by Baffoe‐Asare, Danquah, and Annor‐Frempong () in their study on socioeconomic factors influencing Codapec and cocoa technologies among smallholder farmers in the central region of Ghana. Indeed, agricultural training is a way in which farmers acquire both theoretical and practical agricultural techniques, thus allowing them to be aware and experience agricultural technologies such as improved seeds, and as a result, this training and experience will influence their probability to adopt.…”

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Adoption and impact of improved maize varieties on maize yields: Evidence from central Cameroon

Takam-Fongang

Kamdem

Kane

2018

Review Development Economics

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This study uses both the endogenous switching regression and propensity score matching models to analyze the adoption and impact of improved maize varieties on maize yields in central Cameroon. The results show that (i) education level, agricultural training, proximity to an Institute of Agricultural Research for Development branch and farmers’ perceptions of yield and risk of improved maize varieties significantly affect the adoption of improved maize varieties and (ii) the adoption of improved maize varieties enhances maize yields. Therefore, policies designed to stimulate adoption of improved maize varieties should be promoted. Improvement of access to school and agricultural training may serve as good strategies for promoting the adoption of improved maize varieties in Cameroon.

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Section: Resultssupporting

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Adoption and impact of improved maize varieties on maize yields: Evidence from central Cameroon

Takam-Fongang

Kamdem

Kane

2018

Review Development Economics

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“…Dans les sites d'étude, sur un total de 360 producteurs enquêtés, 327 ont déclaré avoir adopté la technologie "Microdose" soit un taux d'adoption de 90,83%. Ce taux d'adoption est comparable à ceux obtenus par de nombreux auteurs (Gedikoglu et al, 2011 ;Mariano et al, 2012 ;Baffoe-Asare et al, 2013 ;Barry, 2017).…”

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Facteurs d’adoption de la technologie "Microdose" dans les zones agroécologiques au Burkina Faso

Sigué¹,

Labiyi²,

Yabi³

et al. 2019

Int. J. Bio. Chem. Sci

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La disponibilité des ressources en eau et la dégradation des sols deviennent un défi majeur et menacent sérieusement les systèmes de production agricole dans la zone semi-aride du Burkina Faso. Cet article est une étude de cas, qui vise à identifier les facteurs explicatifs de l'adoption de la technologie "Microdose" avec une combinaison des techniques de gestion de l'eau et de fertilité des sols, dans les exploitations agricoles des provinces de Zondoma et de Kouritenga au Burkina Faso. La collecte des données a été effectuée auprès d'un échantillon aléatoire de 360 exploitants agricoles repartis dans les deux provinces. Dans la zone d'étude, les principales cultures vivrières sont le sorgho, le mil le maïs et le niébé qui assurent la base alimentaire des ménages agricoles. L'analyse économétrique avec le modèle logit a permis d'identifier des facteurs déterminant l'adoption du paquet technologique "Microdose". Les résultats ont montré que la formation en microdose (à 1%), le revenu agricole (à 5%), le nombre d'actifs (à 10%) et l'équipement du producteur (à 10%) ont une influence positive sur l'adoption du paquet technologique. La superficie a en revanche, une influence négative sur l'adoption au seuil de 1%. Ces résultats sont susceptibles d'être exploités afin de promouvoir la production agricole dans les zones similaires.

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“…Extreme weather events notwithstanding, cocoa farmers are also rendered vulnerable by socio-economic and market forces, such as: decline of available land (Ruf and Zadi, 1998;Amanor, 2010;Carr and Lockwood, 2011;Hirons et al, 2018b); soil degradation (Dawoe et al, 2014); corruption in cocoa marketing (Peprah, 2015); cocoa's boom and bust cycles (Ruf and Siswoputranto, 1995;Ruf and Schroth, 2004;Clough et al, 2009); financial exclusion (Zeitlin, 2006;McKinley et al, 2014); poverty (Appiah, 2004;Hirons et al, 2018c); or by virtue of being born female (Oppong et al, 1975;Quisumbing, 1996;Quisumbing et al, 2001;Baffoe-Asare et al, 2013;Barrientos, 2013;Marston, 2016;Friedman et al, 2018). Against this background, this paper studies how Ghanaian cocoa farmers bore the impacts of the 2015-16's prolonged, El Niño-induced drought.…”

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Agricultural Information's Impact on the Adaptive Capacity of Ghana's Smallholder Cocoa Farmers

Maguire‐Rajpaul

Khatun

Hirons

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Ghanaian smallholders grow one quarter of the world's cocoa, but climate change, individual extreme weather events, such as droughts, as well as deforestation increasingly threaten cocoa production. Pertinent information could bolster adaptive capacity. However, in Ghana's cocoa sector, relevant agricultural information is not available to all farmers, which can exacerbate power asymmetries. This paper focuses on how (i) agricultural and drought-adaptive information and (ii) socioeconomic characteristics shape a cocoa farmer's adaptive capacity. We conducted our study in the aftermath of 2015-16's prolonged El Niño-induced drought that negatively impacted the livelihoods of cocoa smallholders across Ghana. In 48 semi-structured interviews and 12 focus groups, we asked smallholders how they responded to the drought to decipher how adaptive capacity compares between farmers receiving four different sources of agricultural information, and of diverse socioeconomic status. Overall, agricultural information improved cocoa farmers' adaptive capacity compared to those who received no formal agricultural information. Smallholders detailed adaptive techniques that would be accessible to, and thus replicable by, other poorly-resourced cocoa farmers. Shade tree management and income diversification were identified as pertinent adaptive actions. However, we identified a divergence between exposure to agricultural information and its transformation into substantive adaptive action. Additionally, informal information sharing between smallholders represents an underutilized resource by extension programmes. We found that adaptive capacity is also determined by socioeconomic characteristics: particularly gender, and to a lesser extent formal education level, proximity to asphalt roads, and land tenure. Finally, we present evidence that framing adaptive techniques in relatable terms that resonate with farmers' immediate livelihood concerns could narrow the adaptation deficit prevalent in Ghana's cocoa sector.

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Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Adoption of Codapec and Cocoa High-tech Technologies among Small Holder Farmers in Central Region of Ghana

Cited by 48 publications

References 38 publications

Adoption and impact of improved maize varieties on maize yields: Evidence from central Cameroon

Adoption and impact of improved maize varieties on maize yields: Evidence from central Cameroon

Facteurs d’adoption de la technologie "Microdose" dans les zones agroécologiques au Burkina Faso

Agricultural Information's Impact on the Adaptive Capacity of Ghana's Smallholder Cocoa Farmers

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