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Performance evaluation of prototype mechanical cassava harvester in three agro-ecological zones in Ghana
Large-scale cassava harvesting, especially during the dry season, is a major constraint to its industrial demand and commercial production. Manual harvesting is slow and associated with drudgery and high root damage in the dry season. Research on mechanisation of cassava production is very low especially in the area of harvesting, and currently there exists no known functional mechanical cassava harvesters in Ghana. -
Performance of integrated crop-small ruminant production systems in West Africa
This paper examines the performance of integrated crop-small-ruminant systems in the Subhumid and the Soudan-Sahelian zones of West Africa. Using cross-sectional data from 712 farmers from The Gambia, Ghana, Mali and Benin, the translog stochastic production frontier is used to estimate the technical efficiencies of farmers in each country. -
Reactions of some confectionery groundnut accessions to plant parasitic nematodes infection
Investigations were conducted at four locations in Ghana during 2011 growing season to evaluate some confectionery groundnut accessions reactions to plant parasitic nematodes infection. -
Producing White Yam for the Export Market: The influence of Seed Sett Size and Planting Density on Tuber Sizes
The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of seed sett sizes and planting density on the tuber size and yields of yam. The treatments were arranged in a split-split plot design with two premium Dioscorea rotundata varieties (Pona and Dente) as main plot. Seed sett sizes (farmers' sett size 350 g, half farmers' sett size 175g) as subplot and Planting density (6944 plt/ha; 8333 plt/ha; 10417plt/ha; 13889 plt/ha; 20833 plt/ha) as sub-sub plot in 2014. Minisetts (50 g) a popular yam multiplication technique was added in 2015. -
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