Determinants of an extended metric of agricultural commercialization in Ghana
For smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, increasing productivity and agricultural commercialization are mooted as one of the pillars for agricultural development. However, the measurement of agricultural commercialization has been restricted to the household crop commercialization index (HCCI)...
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| description | For smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, increasing productivity and agricultural commercialization are mooted as one of the pillars for agricultural development. However, the measurement of agricultural commercialization has been restricted to the household crop commercialization index (HCCI) that focuses on crops neglecting livestock. This study develops an extended metric of agricultural commercialization named household crop-livestock commercialization index (HCLCI), which combines crop and livestock commercialization with the argument that it is superior to the overly used HCCI. Fractional regression is used to estimate the determinants of the extended metric using secondary and primary data from Ghana. Results indicate that agricultural commercialization is low when examined with the HCCI and the HCLCI. However, the HCLCI (at 26.44 % and 29.76 %, respectively, for the GLSS7 and primary data) is much lower relative to the HCCI (at 35.20 % and 38.24, respectively) but higher than the livestock commercialization index (10.93 % and 8.21 %, respectively). The underlying simultaneous factors that boost agricultural commercialization are infrastructure variables (i.e., road, market, transport, and bank), institutional variable (i.e., agricultural cooperatives) and scale of production (i.e., land endowment and crop production diversity). These findings imply that Ghana needs to invest in infrastructure and farmer institutional development to boost agricultural commercialization. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d201cbae2e8a4a6d8b6cad326e5b7fdf2024-12-21T04:29:07ZengElsevierScientific African2468-22762024-12-0126e02412Determinants of an extended metric of agricultural commercialization in GhanaBenjamin Musah Abu0Daniel Bruce Sarpong1Yaw Bonsu Osei-Asare2Charles Yaw Okyere3Taeyoon Kim4Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Ghana; Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences, University for Development Studies, Ghana; Corresponding author at: Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences, University for Development Studies, Ghana.Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, GhanaDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, GhanaDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, GhanaInstitute of Green Bio Science and Technology, Graduate School of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, South KoreaFor smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, increasing productivity and agricultural commercialization are mooted as one of the pillars for agricultural development. However, the measurement of agricultural commercialization has been restricted to the household crop commercialization index (HCCI) that focuses on crops neglecting livestock. This study develops an extended metric of agricultural commercialization named household crop-livestock commercialization index (HCLCI), which combines crop and livestock commercialization with the argument that it is superior to the overly used HCCI. Fractional regression is used to estimate the determinants of the extended metric using secondary and primary data from Ghana. Results indicate that agricultural commercialization is low when examined with the HCCI and the HCLCI. However, the HCLCI (at 26.44 % and 29.76 %, respectively, for the GLSS7 and primary data) is much lower relative to the HCCI (at 35.20 % and 38.24, respectively) but higher than the livestock commercialization index (10.93 % and 8.21 %, respectively). The underlying simultaneous factors that boost agricultural commercialization are infrastructure variables (i.e., road, market, transport, and bank), institutional variable (i.e., agricultural cooperatives) and scale of production (i.e., land endowment and crop production diversity). These findings imply that Ghana needs to invest in infrastructure and farmer institutional development to boost agricultural commercialization.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227624003545O13Q12Q13 |
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| title | Determinants of an extended metric of agricultural commercialization in Ghana |
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