@article{Kondo:295654,
      recid = {295654},
      author = {Kondo, Ebenezer and Sarpong, Daniel Bruce and Egyir, Irene  S.},
      title = {Production and market participation decisions of  smallholder cowpea producers in the Northern Region of  Ghana: A triple hurdle model approach},
      address = {2019-09},
      pages = {18},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {This article investigates the production and market  participation decisions of smallholder cowpea producers in  the Northern Region of Ghana. It estimated the factors  influencing cowpea production and market participation  decisions. A cross-sectional primary data of 300  respondents were sampled from four districts in the  northern region of Ghana for the study. We employed the  Triple Hurdle Model (THM) for the data analysis. The  results reveal that factors influencing cowpea production  participation, market participation and intensity of  participation are similar and include gender, education,  distance to nearest market, own means of transportation,  access to market information, proximity good road network,  labour, tractor services, value of livestock owned, access  to improved cowpea seed, and extension services. Policy  measures that promote agricultural diversification should  be implemented. Inclusion of cowpea as one of the priority  food crops under the government’s flagship “Planting for  Food and Jobs programme”. The private sector to take up the  sale of improved cowpea seed and provision of tractor  hiring services to smallholder cowpea producers. Provision  of market spaces, good road infrastructure, and maintaining  the free compulsory basic education policy as well as the  development of more improved cowpea seed varieties will  promote cowpea production and market participation in the  Northern Region of Ghana.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/295654},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.295654},
}