The sustainability of animal traction farming systems in northern Ghana:
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| adam_text | Titel: The sustainability of animal traction farming systems in northern Ghana
Autor: Hesse, Johann H.
Jahr: 1998
Table of contents
Table of contents
1 Executive Summary................................................................1
2 Statement of the problem and objectives of
the study................................................................................11
3 Concept of sustainability of farming systems................17
4 Data collection, analysis and limitations......................21
4.1 Fieldwork.......................................................................................21
4.2 Sample and the sampling unit..........................................................25
4.3 Limitations of a follow up study......................................................29
4.4 Level of analysis, delimitation of the approach of Panin (1988).......30
5 Effect of bullock traction for 1982 compared
with 1994 at the field level................................................33
5.1 Labor distribution by fanning operations.........................................33
5.2 Fertilizer application.......................................................................36
5.3 Physical productivity.......................................................................39
5.3.1 Yields.................................................................................39
5.3.2 Hypothesis about the general variation in physical
yields..................................................................................44
5.3.3 Production function analysis................................................45
5.4 Crop budgets and returns to factors of production for fields
including all crops...........................................................................52
5.4.1 Production values and variable costs...................................53
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5.4.2 Gross margins.....................................................................58
5.5 Hiring bullock traction versus owning bullocks and plow................59
5.5.1 Characteristics of fields tilled with hired BT
versus fields tilled with owned BT......................................59
5.5.2 Economic evaluation of hired BT versus owned
BT at the field level.............................................................64
6 Effect of bullock traction for 1982 compared
with 1994 at the farm-household level...........................71
6.1 Household aging and the sample composition.................................71
6.2 Characteristics of farm-households owning BT for 1982 compared
with 1994........................................................................................73
6.2.1 Household demographics....................................................73
6.2.2 Land and capital resources.................................................. 79
6.3 Attractiveness of bullock traction investment for farm-households
that did not own bullocks and implements.......................................82
6.3.1 Comparison of the cost-benefit analysis of 1982
to 1994................................................................................82
6.3.2 Conditions under which an investment in bullock
traction would be profitable in 1994....................................88
7 Changes in pattern of adoption and diffusion
of bullock traction in the study villages......................93
7.1 Changes at the village level.............................................................93
7.2 Explaining changes in ownership patterns.......................................97
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8 Discussion and practical relevance of
empirical results................................................................105
9 Recommendations...............................................................127
10 Summary...............................................................................131
11 References...........................................................................145
12 Appendix...............................................................................151
III
List of Tables and Figures
List of Tables
Table 4-1: Cross tabulation of cases of non-bullock traction (NBT)
and bullock traction (BT) fields cultivated by non-bullock
owning (NBO) and bullock owning (BO) households................29
Table 5-1: Difference in labor allocation to BT compared with NBT
fields for 1982 and 1994 by ginning operations excluding
untilled fields (ME/ha)..............................................................34
Table 5-2: General characteristics of fertilizer application for 1982
and 1994...................................................................................37
Table 5-3: Relationship of number of cases of BT and fertilizer
application for 1982 and 1994...................................................38
Table 5-4: Difference in yields of BT compared with NBT fields for
1982 and 1994 by cropping patterns and field type
(kcal/ha)......................................_„.,..._________...................41
Table 5-5: Regression coefficients of Cobb-Douglas production
function for 1982 and 1994 (dependent variable = yield in
kcal/ha).....................................................................................47
Table 5-6: Percentage difference in crop budgets for BT compared
with NBT fields for 1982 and 1994 for all crops.......................55
Table 5-7: Selected characteristics of NBT fields compared with
fields tilled with rented BT and with owned BT (means)...........61
IV
List of Tables and Figures
Table 5-8: Crop budgets for NBT versus rented BT and owned BT
fields, all crops 1994.................................................................65
Table 6-1: Number of BO households in 1982 and 1994............................73
Table 6-2: Differences in demographic characteristics of BO and
NBO farm-households for 1982 and 1994.................................75
Table 6-3: Differences in demographic characteristics of hoe, rented
BT and BO households for 1994 (means)..................................77
Table 6-4: Difference in land and capital resources of NBO compared
with BO households for 1982 and 1994.....................................80
Table 6-5: Differences in land and capital resource endowment of
hoe, rented BT and BO households for 1994 (means)................81
Table 6-6: Comparison of results of investment analysis of bullock
traction for 1982 and 1994........................................................85
Table 6-7: Changes m profitability affecting factors that would be
necessary to make an investment in bullock traction
profitable in 1994......................................................................90
Table 7-1: Distribution of the utilization of different soil tillage
technologies in the study villages for 1995 (no. of
households)...............................................................................95
Table 7-2: Source of access to BT for households not owning
bullocks but use bullock traction (households)...........................96
List of Tables and Figures
Table 7-3: Correlation of selected characteristics of farm-households
that initially owned bullock traction in 1982 (N =30)...............102
Table 7-4: Factors determining BT ownership in 1994 of initial BT
owners of 1982/83..................................................................103
List of figures
Figure 5-1: Difference in fertilizer application for BT compared with
NBT fields for 1982 and 1994 in terms of kg N per hectare.......39
Figure 5-2: Mean returns to factors of production for NBT versus
rented BT and owned BT fields.................................................68
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