Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana
Increased capital use in agriculture, including mechanization, is con-sidered an integral process of agricultural transformation. Despite some recent emergence of medium-to-large scale farmers in SSA, as well as labor-movement out of agricultural sector (particularly youths), smallholders without su...
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| author | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Liu, Yanyan |
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| description | Increased capital use in agriculture, including mechanization, is con-sidered an integral process of agricultural transformation. Despite some recent emergence of medium-to-large scale farmers in SSA, as well as labor-movement out of agricultural sector (particularly youths), smallholders without substantial mechanization have re-mained the majority in the agricultural sector in countries like Gha-na. Globally, mechanization has often been associated with large-scale farming given the complementarity between machine and land. The experiences in Asia in the last few decades, however, suggest that mechanization may grow even among smallholders before they transition into larger-scale farmers. These experiences have prompted the need to understand better how mechanization may be adopted by smallholders for whom the scope for exploiting complementarity between mechanization and land is limited. We test the hypotheses that high-yielding technologies, which potentially raise returns to more intensive farm power use, are im-portant drivers of adoptions of agricultural mechanization among smallholders at both extensive and intensive margins. We do so using the three rounds of repeated cross-sectional, nationally rep-resentative data (Ghana Living Standard Surveys (GLSS) 2006, 2013, 2017), as well as unique tractor-use data in Ghana collected by IFPRI and Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (IFPRI-SARI data), and multi-dimensional indicators of agroclimatic similarity with plant-breeding locations. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1467472025-11-06T05:17:44Z Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana Takeshima, Hiroyuki Liu, Yanyan tractors agroclimatic zones equipment technology agricultural mechanization Increased capital use in agriculture, including mechanization, is con-sidered an integral process of agricultural transformation. Despite some recent emergence of medium-to-large scale farmers in SSA, as well as labor-movement out of agricultural sector (particularly youths), smallholders without substantial mechanization have re-mained the majority in the agricultural sector in countries like Gha-na. Globally, mechanization has often been associated with large-scale farming given the complementarity between machine and land. The experiences in Asia in the last few decades, however, suggest that mechanization may grow even among smallholders before they transition into larger-scale farmers. These experiences have prompted the need to understand better how mechanization may be adopted by smallholders for whom the scope for exploiting complementarity between mechanization and land is limited. We test the hypotheses that high-yielding technologies, which potentially raise returns to more intensive farm power use, are im-portant drivers of adoptions of agricultural mechanization among smallholders at both extensive and intensive margins. We do so using the three rounds of repeated cross-sectional, nationally rep-resentative data (Ghana Living Standard Surveys (GLSS) 2006, 2013, 2017), as well as unique tractor-use data in Ghana collected by IFPRI and Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (IFPRI-SARI data), and multi-dimensional indicators of agroclimatic similarity with plant-breeding locations. 2019-08-31 2024-06-21T09:08:34Z 2024-06-21T09:08:34Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146747 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, Hiroyuki; and Liu, Yanyan. 2019. Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana. Project Note 05. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146747 |
| spellingShingle | tractors agroclimatic zones equipment technology agricultural mechanization Takeshima, Hiroyuki Liu, Yanyan Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana |
| title | Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana |
| title_full | Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana |
| title_short | Determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in Ghana |
| title_sort | determinants of agricultural machinery adoption intensities in ghana |
| topic | tractors agroclimatic zones equipment technology agricultural mechanization |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146747 |
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