Formen gartenartiger Landwirtschaft in Nord-Ghana -Moeglichkeiten fuer zusaetzliches Einkommen durch Intensivierung auf kleiner Flaeche.
1985
Diehl L. | Runge Metzger A.
The intensification of agriculture is a result of the increasing scarcity of labour and of arable land in smaller farming operations. It leads to a more garden-type farming as it is carried out in the northern part of Ghana on small plots. The cultivation of corn, cowpeas and tobacco in the vicinity of the compounds which have a higher fertility of the soil than common bushland, due to the continuous supply of organic wastes, constitutes, through high yields of corn, an important contribution to safeguarding of the basis of nutrition, and a source of cash for the men, through the sale of tobacco. The cultivation of vegetable in the main crops is an important source of income for the women. The establishment of small garden plots in the vicinity of the water reservoirs contributes to an improvement of the income situation during the dry season. For further evolution, a more efficient utilization of organic wastes and the introduction of new types of vegetables and fruit trees are recommended. The principal obstacle for such a development is, however, the kind of livestock keeping, so that a short-term intensification seems possible only on small plots.
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