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Exploring Farmers’ Indigenous Knowledge of Soil Quality and Fertility Management Practices in Selected Farming Communities of the Guinea Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Ghana

Richard Ansong Omari,
Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura,
Elsie Sarkodee Addo,
Yosei Oikawa and
Yoshiharu Fujii

Sustainability2018, 10(4), 1034;https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041034

30 March 2018

Efforts to improve soil productive capacity aimed at boosting crop production in the Northern Ghana has primarily focused on field-based experiments with little documentation on farmer practice and local indigenous knowledge of soil management. A sam...

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Participatory On-Farm Evaluation of Improved Groundnut Genotypes in the Guinea Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Ghana

Ophelia Asirifi Amoako,
Richard Oteng-Frimpong,
Julius Yirzagla,
Yussif Baba Kassim,
Theophilus Kwabla Tengey,
Desmond Sunday Adogoba,
Mercy Mingle,
Ramatu Alhassan and
Abdul Aleem Ibrahim

Agriculture2023, 13(12), 2249;https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13122249

7 December 2023

The on-farm mother–baby trial experimental approach was employed to evaluate the performance of elite groundnut genotypes on farmers’ fields in the Guinea savannah agroecology of Ghana in the 2020 and 2021 cropping seasons. Analysis of th...

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Evaluating the Environmental-Technology Gaps of Rice Farms in Distinct Agro-Ecological Zones of Ghana

Jacob Asravor,
Alexander N. Wiredu,
Khalid Siddig and
Edward E. Onumah

Sustainability2019, 11(7), 2072;https://doi.org/10.3390/su11072072

8 April 2019

Rice (Oryza sativa) is an important food staple and a cash crop, which is cultivated in all the ten regions of Ghana under varying agro-ecological conditions. These conditions also reflect the production technologies used and the total farm output. I...

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Sulphur Contents in Arable Soils from Four Agro-Ecological Zones of Ghana

Dora Neina and
Barbara Adolph

Land2022, 11(10), 1866;https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101866

21 October 2022

There is limited data on Sulphur (S) contents in arable soils for appropriate fertilizer recommendations in Ghana. Five study areas in a reconnaissance survey (RS), followed by an in-depth study of two areas comprising farms of different durations of...

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Risk Assessment of Mycotoxins in Stored Maize Grains Consumed by Infants and Young Children in Nigeria

Modupeade C. Adetunji,
Olusegun O. Atanda and
Chibundu N. Ezekiel

Children2017, 4(7), 58;https://doi.org/10.3390/children4070058

10 July 2017

Maize is a major complimentary food for infants (0–4years) and young children (5–12years) in Nigeria. In this study, we assessed the risk of exposure of infants and young children (IYC) to some major mycotoxins in stored maize grains from five agro-e...

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