Agricultural Extension Services and Smallholder Farmers Indebtedness in Northeastern Ghana

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" Agricultural Extension Services and Smallholder Farmers Indebtedness in Northeastern Ghana "
Steve Tonah

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1071218
Doc. No	:	LA114847
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852194X00081‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Steve Tonah
Title & Author	:	Agricultural Extension Services and Smallholder Farmers Indebtedness in Northeastern Ghana [Article]\ Steve Tonah
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Asian and African Studies
Date	:	1994
Volume/ Issue Number	:	29/1-2
Page No	:	119–128
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852194X00081‬