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Socio-Economic Impact of Government Spraying Programme on Cocoa Farmers in Ghana

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dc.contributor.author Abankwah, V.
dc.contributor.author Aidoo, R.
dc.contributor.author Osei, R.K.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-28T13:35:46Z
dc.date.available 2024-11-28T13:35:46Z
dc.date.issued 2010-12
dc.identifier.issn 1520-5509
dc.identifier.uri http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/4622
dc.description.abstract This paper assesses the impact of government cocoa spraying programme on the socio-economic live of cocoa farmers in Ghana. Due to high cost of pesticides, maintenance of cocoa farms was becoming a burden on farmers. As a remediation, Ghana government initiated a national spraying exercise in 2001to control the spread of the black pod disease and cocoa pests, free of charge, with the aim of increasing yield. Nine years after implementing the project under CODAPEC, Ghana has seen an upsurge in cocoa production yet the economic fortunes of cocoa farmers appear not to have improved. It is hypothesized; therefore, that the mass spraying exercise being implemented by CODAPEC has not contributed to improving income from cocoa. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ;Volume 12, No.4, 2010)
dc.subject Before and after en_US
dc.subject CODAPEC en_US
dc.subject Counterfactual en_US
dc.subject Golden pod en_US
dc.subject Inflationary gap en_US
dc.title Socio-Economic Impact of Government Spraying Programme on Cocoa Farmers in Ghana en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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