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Benjamin Tetteh Anang

Researcher at University for Development Studies

Publications -  50
Citations -  660

Benjamin Tetteh Anang is an academic researcher from University for Development Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Agricultural productivity. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 40 publications receiving 418 citations. Previous affiliations of Benjamin Tetteh Anang include University of Helsinki.

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Factors influencing smallholder farmers access to agricultural microcredit in Northern Ghana

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the access to agricultural microcredit in Ghana using household survey data collected for the 2013/2014 farming season using the Heckman selection model for addressing the possible presence of sample selectivity bias in the loan size regression.
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Adoption and income effects of agricultural extension in northern Ghana

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of agricultural extension on improved rice variety adoption and farm income in northern Ghana using recursive bivariate probit (RBP) and regression with endogenous treatment effect model (RETEM) models.
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Consumer preferences for rice quality characteristics and the effects on price in the Tamale metropolis, northern region, Ghana.

TL;DR: In this article, a study aimed to determine influential factors on consumer preference for various rice brands in the metropolis of Tamale and the quality characteristics which affect prices, and the Kendall's coefficient of concordance was used to determine the factors that influence consumer preference.
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Production Constraints and Measures to Enhance the Competitiveness of the Tomato Industry in Wenchi Municipal District of Ghana

TL;DR: The study found that small scale tomato producers in the district face a myriad of production constraints which limit their ability to increase production, including lack of capital, high cost of inputs and low produce price as mentioned in this paper.
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Agricultural microcredit and technical efficiency: The case of smallholder rice farmers in Northern Ghana

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the technical efficiency of smallholder rice farmers with and without credit in northern Ghana using data from a farm household survey and found that credit-participating households had an efficiency of 63.0 percent compared to 61.7 percent for non-participants.