The agriculture sector is the predominant employer of the active workforce in Ghana. Among this workforce, women …-economic characteristics of women affect local economic development through cassava production and processing in Central Tongu district of … Ghana. A proportional stratified probability sampling with simple random sampling technique was used to select 171 …

Benefit-cost analysis of various cassava processing approaches was conducted to compare their profitabilities both at … large and small scale levels. Cassava processors in some selected districts including Awutu-Efutu-Senya in Central, Suhum … – Kraboa-Coaltar in Eastern and Ho district in Volta Regions of Ghana were interviewed using participatory rural appraisal and …

The paper assesses the potential impact of the adoption of improved cassava varieties on yields of smallholder farmers …. Using cross-sectional data collected from a randomly selected sample of 1,176 farmers dispersed across Ghana and employing …, adoption had a significant positive impact on cassava yields. Adopters had 18 t/ha increases in yields and non-adopters should …