EXPLORING THE DIFFERENT PATH WAYS INFLUENCING ADOPTION OF IMPROVED CASSAVA TECHNOLOGIES

Lydia Brobbey, Jonathan mensah Dapaah, Particia Pinamang Acheampong, Joe Manu-Aduening, Joyce Haleegoah and Benedicta Nsiah Frimpong

No 277798, 2018 Conference (2nd), August 8-11, Kumasi, Ghana from Ghana Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: To achieve improved production levels, farmers need to master new skills and learn to manage and manipulate relevant agricultural information. Information is one of the basic human needs after air, water, food, and shelter and thus could be said to be one of the basic necessities of life. Therefore, how far farmers progress in their farm enterprises depends largely on the availability of and access to accurate and reliable information. This study is to assess dissemination path ways of improved technologies of cassava cultivation and the impact of adoption of these technologies on farm household’s yields, incomes, and food security. With the use of a concurrent mixed method approach, employed in the setting of Nsuta and Wenchi, selected districts in Ghana, the study found that farmers were more eager about accessing agricultural information from various dissemination pathways; predominantly extension agents, farmer fields, radio and demonstrations within their localities. However, access to agricultural information by the cassava farmers in this study setting were constrained by time, cost and cultural barriers. Therefore, the study recommends a sound communication strategy to effectively and quickly disseminate the latest agricultural technologies to farming communities and aid individual farmers in adopting them.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2018-08-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.277798

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