Report on baseline survey and needs assessment of farmers and processors in Northern Region of Ghana

Abstract

The overall goal of RSSP is to strengthen stakeholders of the rice sector with the view of contributing to reduce poverty in the northern part of Ghana and ultimately improve upon national food security. In furtherance of this goal the RSSP purposes to increase rice productivity (and production) and household incomes in northern Ghana through the adoption of appropriate technologies by low-income and/or resource poor farm households, rice processors, marketers and communities in targeted areas of northern Ghana. The project is being implemented in four regions namely; Upper-East, Upper-West, Northern and Volta with the under-listed outcomes and expected outputs