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Crop Cutting Yield Survey for the 2019 Major Season in GIC Project Areas

The “Green Innovation Centres for the Agricultural and Food Sector (GIC)-GIZ”, a special initiative commissioned by t

Interesting Agric Trivia of Ghana

What is the Coastline?
535 km long3

What is the Total Land Area?
23,853,300 hectares

What are Principal Agricultural Exports?
Cocoa, Timber, Horticultural Products, Fish/Sea Foods.

The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)

The fall army worm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is regarded as a pest and can damage and destroy a wide variety of crops, causing large economic damage. Its scientific name is frugiperda. Fall army worm generally feeds on foliage, but during heavy infestations, larvae will also feed on corn ears and leaves.

Agriculture in Ghana

There are five main agro-ecological zones defined on the basis of climate, reflected by the natural vegetation and influenced by the soils. These are Rain Forest, Deciduous Forest, Transitional Zone, Coastal Savannah and Northern Savannah (Guinea and Sudan Savannah).

Food Security

Agriculture is predominantly on a smallholder basis in Ghana. About 90% of farm holdings are less than 2 hectares in size, although there are some large farms and plantations, particularly for rubber, oil palm and coconut and to a lesser extent, rice, maize and pineapples. Main system of farming is traditional.

Computer Assisted Paperless Interviewing (CAPI) System

This CAPI project has the potential to improve agricultural data collection for all the districts within the country. The server side, which has the ability to be scaled upwards to accommodate large amounts of data, should provide a centralized repository to manage and access agricultural data in a manner more secure, easy and reliable than ever before.