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Ghana Agricultural Extension Policy (Abridged Version)
Agricultural Extension Services in Ghana has gone through various things over the year. In the 1980s and 1990s the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) adopted the Training and Visit System of agricultural extension. The concept of Transfer of Technology (TOT) by Agricultural Extension Agents (AEAS) was hinted to reaching farmers with only information. The Ministry also gave up its other function of inputs supply and distribution to farmers. Above all, the removal of
Ghana Agricultural Extension Policy (Abridged Version)
subsidies on agricultural inputs took away some of the incentives the traditional extension service depended upon to attract farmers to adopt available technology. Under the current Food and Agricultural Sector Development Policy (FASDEP) the limited access to appropriate technology at all levels in the crop, livestock and fisheries sub-sector is recognized as one of the major obstacles to agricultural development. In addition to all these, the decentralization of MoFA activities in 1997 has also bought its value changes in the structure and management of the agricultural extension delivery service.