Can the private sector lead agricultural mechanization in Ghana?

Nazaire Houssou, Xinshen Diao and Shashi Kolavalli

No 4, GSSP policy notes from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Increasing agricultural mechanization has long been of interest to many African countries. Constrained by the limited area that can be cultivated through the use of the hand hoe and its association with perceptions of primitiveness and drudgery, agricultural mechanization and large-scale farming have long been a part of the vision of modernizing agriculture in many African countries, including Ghana.

Keywords: farm inputs; private sector; agricultural development; mechanization; Ghana; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Western Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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