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The high cost of importing fish feeds into Ghana has necessitated the search for possibly cheaper substitute feed with high nutritional value. The proximate composition of housefly maggots (Musca domestica) cultured on animal blood and digester, poultry waste and brewer’s spent (pito waste) was analyzed. There was significant (p<0.05) difference in the proximate composition of maggots from the different substrates. Poultry waste seems to be a promising substrate to be used in maggots’ product...

Two orange-fleshed sweet potato cultivars: Apomuden and “Nane” were grown on cow dung-, chicken manure-, compost-amended soils and untreated soil. Apomuden is a variety while “Nane” is being evaluated to be released in Ghana. The storage roots (SRs) were harvested at 3 months, cured by heaping the SRs and covering with the sweet potato foliage for 7-days in the field. The cured SRs were kept in an evaporative cool chamber to study the effect of soil amendment treatments on weight loss, rot, s...

Climate change is impacting the cropping system, landscape, livelihoods, and nutrition diversity of farming households and communities in Africa. Climate change adaptability and resilience are emerging as important criteria for setting national priorities for promoting indigenous crops to enhance food and nutrition security, especially of resource-poor smallholders. However, many climate resilient indigenous crops have been lost due to inappropriate policies that fail to prioritize climate re...

Macroeconomic variables are the main signposts signaling the current trends in an economy. In this study, data on the 91-day T-bill rate, 182-day T-bill rate, inflation rate and exchange rate from the Bank of Ghana database was modelled using multivariate time series techniques to investigate the dynamic interrelationships existing between these macroeconomic variables over time. The results revealed that, the 91-day T -bill, 182-day T -bill and inflation rates exhibit log-quadratic...

The effects of three curing and two household-level storage methods (sand box and heap) on the compositional quality of two orange-fleshed sweetpotato cultivars were investigated for two successive years. The curing treatments were: inground/dehaulming, field-piling and uncured. Roots from the curing treatments were stored in either sand box or heap methods. The β-carotene content of “Apomuden” and “Nangungungu” respectively ranged from 13.80 to 28.29 mg/100 g and 11.33 to 17.20 mg/100 g for ...

This study investigates the effect of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation on heat and mass transfer with convective boundary conditions. A system of partial differential equations describing the problem has been modelled and the technique of similarity analysis employed to transform the model into ordinary differential equations. The reduced system was solved using the Newton-Raphson shooting method alongside with the Forth-order Runge-Kutta algorithm. The results are presente...

Many lives are lost yearly due to road traffic accidents worldwide. Apart from the psychological trauma that comes with these loses, economic and educational activities are also adversely affected. This work investigated the number of deaths through road traffic accident in the Upper West Region of Ghana by adopting a survey research method. Autoregressive Integrated Moving average (ARIMA) models were employed. The target population comprised of stakeholders including the Police s...

Groundnut farmers face production losses through Aflatoxin infestation and bad weather conditions. These losses could be avoided if the right planting material is used. Unlike in the case of rice and maize, use of CGS is limited, largely due to the unavailability and low level of usage by farmers in Northern Ghana where much of the production is done. Motivated by this argument, the study examines farmers’ preferences and use of certified groundnut seed in Northern Ghana. Multi-stage sampling...

Gender equality in education is a key to reducing vulnerability to economic, social and environmental dislocation. As a result, promoting gender equality in basic education through community participation is a widely acknowledged intervention in both developed and developing countries. The main objective of the study was to assess the extent to which community participation promotes gender equality in basic education in the Kpandai District in the Northern Region of Ghana. Social cognit...

The role of physical planning in the socio-economic development of humans is now more crucial due to the continuous increase in population and urbanization. The successful implementation of most government policies require the use of land, which is fixed in supply. There is therefore the need to employ judicious strategies, in order to reconcile competing claims through physical planning. This study therefore ascertains the emerging trends in land market and their impact on physical...

Interreligious conflicts like other forms of conflicts are pervasive among adherents of various religious faiths in Ghana. However, Ghana is not experiencing devastating conflicts resulting from religion as some countries in Africa and beyond have witnessed. Nonetheless, there are reports of cases of inter-religious clashes in the country’s educational institutions, especially the Senior High Schools across the country. The selected schools (Wa Senior High School, Lassia Tuolu Senio...

The care of children with intellectual disabilities is primarily undertaken by mothers who are considered the primary caregivers. This often predisposes them to a lot of physical, social and economic stress. For this reason, this study examines the effects of the available support services with the aim of making parents experiences visible to stakeholders. It will guide the design and provision of support services for them and their children. The study employed a case study design...

The Konkomba society, like many other African societies is patriarchal in nature with associated imbalanced gender relations which cast women in subservient positions. This study examined the existing patriarchal structures of the Konkombas and how this system determines the womanhood of the Konkomba woman in the Nanumba North Municipality in the Northern Region of Ghana. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and a mix method approach. It employed questionnaire in c...

The Continuous ethnic conflicts within Bunkpurugu Yunyoo District have made it almost synonymous with the word “conflict”. This prompted the researcher to set out to ascertain the effects of these conflicts on basic education in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District. The study was conducted in three selected communities (Kpemale, Bunkpurugu and Sayoogu) in the District. A cross sectional survey was employed. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected using questionnaires and intervie...

There has been several chieftaincy succession disputes in Gonjaland in the last two decades. There were disputes at Buipe, Yapei and Daboya. At the moment, Bole Traditional Area is sitting on a timed bomb. Violence could flare up anytime. What is intriguing about these succession conflicts is that there is a constitution in place which stipulates how chieftaincy skins should rotate among the different gates who are heirs to any thrones. This situation push the researcher to try to find o...

Small and Medium Scale Enterprises have appeared in the development scene because of their ability to respond to the needs and problems by making good use of the local resources that large scale enterprises have been unable to solve in a satisfactory manner. The study of assessing sustainable business strategy in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises therefore sought to discover the institutions that give support, the strategies employed by Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in their busine...

Communication in a multi-campus University is perceived to be riddled with delays, distortions, high cost or reduction in quality of information flow within and/or across campuses and consequently affect performance. The study examined the effects of organizational communication on administrative performance of staff in the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana with the application of the System theory and a developed conceptual framework. The mixed research design was used and a mult...

Increasing the adoption of improved technologies through the provision of adequate credit is necessary to resolve the problem of low crop productivity due to the constant decline of soil fertility and climate change impact on agriculture. The study examines access to credit, adoption of improved technologies and adoption effect on maize technical efficiency of 240 farmers in the Upper East Region, Ghana. A multi-stage sampling approach was used to select the farmers. Face-to-face interviews w...

Curing in sweetpotato is a crucial pre- or postharvest practice that could guarantee improved shelflife, but rarely practised by sweetpotato farmers in SubSaharan Africa, principally due to lack of knowledge. Wound healing ability of cultivars has been associated with good root storability. In this study, two orangefleshed sweetpotato cultivars (Apomuden and Nane) were either cured in-ground by dehaulming prior to harvest or field-piled over a seven-day period to study their responses to woun...