Table 2.
Plant species grown by farm households in North Ghana and their associated value of (imputed) self-consumption and sales (GH₵).
| Crop | Self-consumption | Sale | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. hh | % | Sum | Average/hh | No. hh | % | Sum | Average/hh | |
| Cereals | ||||||||
| Maize | 554 | 81.2 | 199522.33 | 360.15 | 197 | 28.9 | 86109.94 | 437.11 |
| Pearl millet | 151 | 22.1 | 23229.24 | 153.84 | 48 | 7.0 | 10698.53 | 222.89 |
| Sorghum | 70 | 10.3 | 9472.88 | 135.33 | 21 | 3.1 | 6806.23 | 324.11 |
| Finger millet | 52 | 7.6 | 7812.41 | 150.24 | 11 | 1.6 | 2560.75 | 232.80 |
| Rice | 222 | 32.6 | 88975.53 | 400.79 | 144 | 21.1 | 58849.86 | 408.68 |
| Other cereals | 1 | 0.1 | 46.30 | 46.30 | 0 | |||
| Pulses & nuts | ||||||||
| Bean | 164 | 24.0 | 31149.4 | 45.7 | 50 | 7.3 | 10514.90 | 210.30 |
| Soybean | 82 | 12.0 | 19278.1 | 28.3 | 84 | 12.3 | 37648.19 | 448.19 |
| Pigeon pea | 5 | 0.7 | 1592.6 | 2.3 | 4 | 0.6 | 391.00 | 97.75 |
| Chickpea | 8 | 1.2 | 1942.0 | 2.8 | 6 | 0.9 | 1429.50 | 238.25 |
| Cowpea | 27 | 4.0 | 5911.4 | 8.7 | 17 | 2.5 | 20934.25 | 1231.43 |
| Groundnut | 206 | 30.2 | 99725.9 | 146.2 | 180 | 26.4 | 66039.84 | 366.89 |
| Bambara nut | 94 | 13.8 | 11613.5 | 17.0 | 24 | 3.5 | 4842.58 | 201.77 |
| Vegetables | ||||||||
| Okra | 3 | 0.4 | 459.38 | 153.13 | 2 | 0.3 | 2232.00 | 1116.00 |
| Roots & tubers | ||||||||
| Onion | 1 | 0.1 | 200.00 | 200.00 | 1 | 0.1 | 4900.00 | 4900.00 |
| Potato | 1 | 0.1 | 41.67 | 41.67 | 1 | 0.1 | 400.00 | 400.00 |
| Sweet potato | 3 | 0.4 | 150.00 | 50.00 | 2 | 0.3 | 950.00 | 475.00 |
| Cassava | 17 | 2.5 | 5348.39 | 314.61 | 9 | 1.3 | 2726.25 | 302.92 |
| Yam | 145 | 21.3 | 69756.27 | 481.08 | 67 | 9.8 | 34882.29 | 520.63 |
| Total | 633 | 92.8 | 546454.10 | 863.28 | 444 | 65.1 | 352916.11 | 794.86 |
Source: Data from the Ghana Africa RISING Baseline Evaluation Survey – 2014 (Tinonin et al., 2016).