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Table 2 Demographic and farm-level characteristics of cocoyam producers by district

From: Is there any economics in smallholder cocoyam production? Evidence from the forest agro-ecological zone of Ghana

Variable

Asante Akyem South

Asunafo North

Fanteakwa

Pooled

Freq

%

Freq

%

Freq

%

Freq

%

Gender

Male

21

42

25

50

38

78

66

44

Female

29

58

25

50

12

24

84

56

Educational status

None

4

8

20

40

14

28

38

25.3

Basic/non-formal

43

86

29

58

28

56

100

66.7

Secondary/pre-tertiary

3

6

1

2

8

16

12

8

Land occupancy status

Own land/inherited

31

62

29

58

21

42

81

54

Family/stool land

7

14

5

10

6

12

18

12

Rented

6

12

 

11

22

17

11.3

Sharecropping

6

12

16

32

7

14

29

19.3

Other (government lands, forest reserves)

 

 

5

10

5

3.3

Cropping culture practised

Sole cropping

3

6

10

20

11

22

24

16

Intercropping

47

94

40

80

39

78

126

84

Main reason for growing cocoyam

Household consumption only

1

2

10

20

1

2

12

8

Mainly for household consumption, sell surplus

1

2

9

18

3

6

13

8.7

Equally for sale and household consumption

30

60

23

46

23

46

76

50.7

Mainly for sale

18

36

8

16

23

46

49

32.7

Target produce for sale

Corms only

26

53.1

27

67.5

39

79.6

93

67.4

Both leaves and corms

23

46.9

13

32.5

10

20.4

45

32.6

Leaves only

 

 

 

 

Major labour sources

Family labour

33

66

46

92

42

84

121

80.6

Hired labour

17

34

4

8

8

16

29

19.4

N (Pooled) = 150; N (AAS) = 50; N (AN_D) = 50; N (F_D) = 50

 
  1. AAS Asante Akyem South, AN_D Asunafo North, F_D Fanteakwa
  2. * Total N for ‘target produce for sale’ does not include producers who cultivate for consumption only