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Title:Women cocoa farmers
Author:Hill, PollyISNI
Year:1958
Periodical:The Economic Bulletin
Volume:2
Issue:6
Pages:3-5
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:women farmers
women's work
cocoa
Abstract:Women are commonly regarded as traders rather than as farmers. But the typical southern Ghanaian woman, who lives outside the municipalities, the large towns and the fishing areas is a farmer not a trader. In many southern areas the number of women food farmers is in excess, often greatly in excess, of the number of men food farmers. It is certain that women play a very important independent role in food production as well as in food distribution, a role which is at present, little understood. As there are many women food farmers so there are many women cocoa farmers. The 1948 Census Report gives figures on this topic. From a small amount of information available it would appear that most women cocoa farmers are farmers in their own right. Figures on this topic appear in analysis of farm owner ship in Effiduase and Akwadum. For Akokoaso, W.H. Beckett in the 1930's collected some figures. The pioneering migrant cocoa farmer is never a women. A low proportion of migrant farmers are women farmers in their own right.
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