Adoption of Soil Conservation Technologies among Farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Fariya Abubakari ¹ , Farida Abubakari ² , Victor Owusu ³

1 - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research- Soil Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana /Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
2 - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research- Soil Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana /Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
3 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Received: 2015-12-24 Accepted : 2015-12-24 Published : 2014-07-01

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