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Title: | Efficiency of resource use: the case of the Ghanaian state rice farms |
Author: | Due, J.M. |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | East African Journal of Rural Development |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 77-93 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | rice development corporations |
Abstract: | None of the three state rice farms in operation in mid-1970 has succeeded to work without loss, since their establishment under the State Farms Corporation (SFC) in the 1960s. One may blame a lack of an appropriate management for this. For instance, there are the questions of decisions on the training and experience of farm managers, the size, amount and make of machinery to be purchased, supervision of machinery use and repair, or choices of crops and agronomic practices. Besides, the low efficiency of these farms is due to a lack of direction from the SFC Head Office, by which matters as accounting and cost control have been neglected. It is not amazing, therefore, that the private sector, under a clear-cut programme of management, yields much higher returns than the SFC farms. Notes, tables, ref. |