Creating Sustainable Income through the Cashew Nuts Value Chain (Evidence from Ghana)

Subject Areas : Agricultural Economics

Nicholas Oppong  Mensah ¹ (Department of Agricultural Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana)
Richmond  Anaman ² (School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha, China)
Kingsford  Nyarko- Fordjour ³ (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana)
Samuel  Afotey Anang ⁴ (Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana)
Anthony  Donkor ⁵ (Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana)
Jacqueline  Twintoh ⁶ (Forestry Commission, Kumasi, Ghana)

Received: 2021-05-27 Accepted : 2021-08-07 Published : 2021-08-15

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