TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE SOIL FERTILITY STRATEGY IN GHANA

Thomas Jayne (), Shashi Kolavalli, Kofi Debrah, Joshua Ariga, Pierre Brunache, Change Kabaghe, Walter Nunez-Rodriguez, Kwaku Owusu Baah, Andre A. Bationo, Elzo Jeroen Huising, Isabel Lambrecht, Xinshen Diao, Felix Yeboah, Samuel Benin and Kwaw Andam

No 258733, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP)

Abstract: Most efforts to raise fertilizer use in SSA over the past decade have focused on fertilizer subsidies and targeted credit programmes with hopes that these programmes could later be withdrawn once the profitability of fertilizer use has been made clear to adopting farmers and once they have become sufficiently capitalized to be able to afford fertilizer on their own. This line of reasoning under-emphasizes the evidence that many smallholder farmers obtain very low crop response rates to inorganic fertilizer application and hence cannot use it profitably at full market prices. A central hypothesis of this study is that Ghanaian farmers will demand increasing quantities of fertilizer when they can utilize it more profitably, and that doing so will require improved agronomic and soil management practices that enable farmers to achieve higher crop response rates to fertilizer application.

Keywords: Productivity; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 2015-09-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.258733

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