Analysis of Production and Marketing Constraints of Tomato among Rural Farmers in Talensi Nabdam District of Upper East Region of Ghana

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Farida A ¹ , Fariya A ²

1 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, /Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy Division, Soil Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
2 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, /Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy Division, Soil Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Received: 2015-12-24 Accepted : 2015-12-24 Published : 2014-03-01

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