Martin Bosompem

University of Cape Coast | UCC · Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension

Unemployment among the youth between the ages of 18 to 35 years is a major developmental challenge as it accounts for over 45% of the unemployed in Ghana. Entrepreneurial development has been identified by the Ghana National Youth Policy as one of the panaceas to youth unemployment in Ghana. The higher educational institutions are responding to you...

The Cocoa High Technology Programme (CHTP) was introduced by the Government of Ghana in 2003 with the aim of improving the fertility of the soil thereby increasing the yields and incomes of cocoa farmers. A correlational survey design was used in the Eastern Region of Ghana to examine the perceived impact of the CHTP on the livelihoods of cocoa far...

Precision agriculture is defined as an information and technological based farm management system to identify, analyse and manage variability within fields for optimum profitability, sustainability and protections of the land resource. The main goal is to manage and distribute inputs on site- specific basis to maximise long term benefits. Even thou...

The potential of Farmer Field School (FFS) as an extension approach in Africa is still evolving, with limited empirical evidence. Cocoa FFSs have been introduced in Ghana by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) since 2006, and are still being experimented with by COCOBOD and NGOs. But, little is known about its effec...

NGOs in Ghana use social networking websites for various purposes: e.g. to establish relationship with stakeholders, raise funds, and advocate for the vulnerable in society. Factors affecting the extent of use of social networking websites among NGOs in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana was analysed using a stepwise regression analysis. Background...

In Botswana, poverty alleviation programmes that are agricultural oriented, have been developed for rural dwellers. Despite these interventions, there is still persistent poverty in the rural areas. Some of the research works have shown that some influential factors are overlooked when developing and implementing these programmes especially for wom...

The study assessed community extension agents’ perceived effect of knowledge management capacity on the performance of the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) in Ghana. A descriptive correlation survey design was used. A hundred and sixty-six (166) randomly sampled Cocoa Extension Agents (CEA) from thirty (30) Districts in three (3) Cocoa re...

This paper examines the prospects and challenges of developing and implementing precision agricultural technologies (PATs) in cocoa production in Ghana. A census of cocoa research scientists and a survey of cocoa extension agents (CEAs) in Ghana were taken. Five major challenges they perceived to pose serious challenges to the development and imple...

Gendered and intersectional inequalities determine differential vulnerabilities to climate change, as well as access to resources and decision making for adaptive actions. Critical scholarly insights demonstrate the roles of power and agency in determining social difference and shaping adaptive capacities across geographical contexts. Framings of r...

Different proportions of orange‐fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP) were used to substitute cassava mash and fermented spontaneously to produce composite gari—a gritty‐crispy ready‐to‐eat food product. Both the amount of OFSP and the fermentation duration (FD) caused significant increases in the β‐carotene content of the composite gari. OFSP addition red...

The purpose of the study was to identify the best predictors of cocoa farmers' willingness to adopt future precision agriculture technologies (PATs) in Ghana. The target population was all cocoa farmers who benefited from cocoa high technology programme (an initiative of distributing free fertilizer by the government to selected cocoa farmers) in G...

Public and private extension providers have been assisting farmers in Liberia but there has been no study done on services they deliver to cassava farmers. This study therefore investigated the delivery system of public and private extension services on cassava farmers. The study used quantitative survey in which 318 randomly sampled cassava farmer...

Ambiguous and contested land rights in Africa is theoretically hypoth- esized to cause disincentive against potentially productive investment in agriculture but evidence varies across studies. As a possible explanation to this, we assess such disincentive and find that it applies only to land with matrilineal origin but not to other acquisition mod...

The implementation of new educational reforms in 2012 academic year in Ghana led to the abolition of Agriculture Science as a single subject in basic schools and agriculture science course was subsumed into Integrated Science. Concerns have been raised by stakeholders as to whether the reforms give room for adequate covering of agriculture needed i...

Agriculture and related businesses in Ghana for the past decades have been the preserve for the smallholder, aged and illiterate farmers. Meanwhile, hundreds of students graduate in Agricultural Sciences from the universities over the years. This study seeks to investigate potential determinants of the entrepreneurial spirit of agricultural student...

Internet has been introduced by Ministry of Food and Agriculture to improve extension delivery in Ghana. However the extent to which extension agents have acquired the knowledge and skills to use it was not known in Eastern Region. The study looked at the determinants of Agricultural Extension Agents (AEAs) Internet competencies in the Eastern Regi...

The main objective of the research was to examine the prospects and challenges of developing and implementing precision agriculture (PA) in cocoa production in Ghana. Correlational research design was used to collect data using a multistage sampling technique from major stakeholders including scientists (n=12), cocoa extension agents (CEAs) (n=63)...

Agricultural insurance is very crucial for poultry farmers because of the devastating effects of diseases in the poultry industry and also the impact of the influx of imported frozen chicken in Ghana.. A study of fifty (50) poultry farmers and seven (7) registered insurance companies in the Central Region of Ghana was undertaken to determine the pr...

Cocoa (Theobroma cocoa) is one of the major agricultural commodities in Ghana. However, its production in Ghana and Africa is faced with numerous occupational hazards and injuries. A survey of 160 cocoa farmers in the Birim South District in the Eastern Region of Ghana was carried out to identify the predominant occupational hazards and injuries fa...

A survey was carried out in two agro-ecological zones (coastal savannah and forest) of Ghana to describe the morphological characteristics of indigenous goat populations in those areas. Two districts each in the two zones were randomly selected and 15 villages with high concentrations of indigenous goats purposely selected from each of the district...

A correlational research design was used to examine the perceived levels of motivation and related variables of agricultural science teachers of selected Senior High Schools in Central Region of Ghana. Their existing levels of motivation, job satisfaction, supervision, work conditions, recognition, promotion, involvement in goal setting and backgro...

Paper was presented at a workshop on “Opportunities in Agriculture and Rural Areas for Youth in times of New Information Technologies in Youth Exchange and Training Workshop on WEB 2 for ARD

In Ghana, major cocoa growing areas have also been found to be well-endowed with minerals including gold, diamond and manganese. Many of these cocoa growing areas are being used for mining purposes. A case study was conducted to determine the effect of the activities of gold mining companies on cocoa farmers and cocoa production in the Asutifi Dist...