Are innovations and technology adopted in Ghana’s cocoa sector?
This paper employs the political settlement framework, diffusion theory, and data generated through a mixed methods design to examine the adoption of innovations and technology in Ghana¡¯s cocoa sector, with particular reference to the Juaboso district, a major cocoa producing area.
Does innovation diffusion exist in Ghana’s cocoa sector?
This paper examines innovation diffusion in Ghana¡¯s cocoa sector, with specific reference to a dominant cocoa producing district.
Why do Ghanaian farmers plant different Cocoa varieties?
As explained earlier, the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana has since the introduction of the first cocoa variety, engineered newer hybrid varieties dealing with the increasing disease menace and falling productivity. Farmers sometimes planted different varieties on the same farm.
How is cocoa produced in Ghana?
Virtually all cocoa in Ghana is produced by smallholder farmers who use simple farm tools (Fountain and Hütz-Adams, 2018 ). Consequently, increasing yields of Ghana¡¯s cocoa farms has been an age-old objective but one that keeps eluding both the farmers and government agriculturalists (Amanor et al., 2020; Dormon et al., 2007; Amanor 2010 ).
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