July 2013

Weight gain, carcass characteristics and economic feasibility of Horro rams supplemented with different substitution levels of maize grain and molasses

  A total of forty Horro rams with an average initial body weight 19.5 kg were randomly assigned to one of the following five treatments with eight replicates: 184.2 g ground maize grain (T1), 140 g ground maize grain + 60 g molasses (T2), 90 g ground maize grain + 120 g molasses (T3), 50 g ground maize grain + 180 g molasses (T4), 240 g molasses (T5). In addition to the treatment diets, all groups were...

Author(s): Chala Merera, Jemal Dekebo and Ulfina Galmessa

July 2013

Smallholder farmers’ adoption of technologies for adaptation to climate change in Northern Ghana

  Climate change introduces numerous uncertainties in the livelihoods of farming communities that depend heavily on the weather and climate. Technologies have been developed to help smallholder farmers better adapt to the changing climatic conditions. This study seeks to determine the factors that influence the adoption of climate related technologies introduced by research institutions. A Multinomial Logit...

Author(s): Prince Maxwell Etwire, Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, John K. M. Kuwornu and Yaw Osei-Owusu