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Title:Efficiency of resource use: the case of the Ghanaian state rice farms
Author:Due, J.M.ISNI
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.
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