Abstract
Achieving a sustainable food supply is crucial to meet the ever-increasing demand emanating from high population growth, rising consumer incomes, and high rates of urbanisation in developing countries including Ghana. The adoption of farm innovations in these countries has proven to be quintessential to the attainment of self-sufficiency in supply food including rice. Nonetheless, the adoption of farm innovations has been challenging. This paper, therefore, analyses the factors that influence the number of farm innovations adopted by rice farmers in two districts of the Upper East Region of Ghana using the Poisson model. The result indicated that the adoption of individual farm innovations was low. The study showed that farm size, labour input, experience in rice farming, access to extension services, and access to credit exerted significant positive effects on the number of farm innovations adopted, whereas farmer age and distance to market tended to decrease the number of farm innovations used by rice farmers. The study concludes that increasing the number of farm innovations adopted tends to promote a sustainable supply of rice output; therefore, food policy should aim at promoting the adoption of different farm innovations in developing countries including Ghana.
Highlights
The global demand for food keeps escalating due to population growth, rising incomes of consumers, and the high rate of urbanisation [1]
The empirical findings clearly showed that human capital and institutional factors were the key determinants of the number of farm innovations adopted by rice farmers in Northern Ghana
The present study has analysed the factors that influenced the adoption of the number of farm innovations adopted by rice farmers in the cropping season
Summary
The global demand for food keeps escalating due to population growth, rising incomes of consumers, and the high rate of urbanisation [1]. The African population constitutes 17.17% of this world population [2]. This suggests that food demand will continue to grow . About 70% of the African population are smallholder farmers who derive their livelihoods from agriculture [3]. These smallholder farmers supply about 80% of the food demand in Africa, and these small farms tend to provide employment opportunities for many actors in the food supply chain [3,4].
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