Mohammed Seidu Mutaka, Tanko Mohammed
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Department of Economics, Kumasi, Ghana.
University for Development Studies, School of Applied Economics and Management Sciences, Tamale, Ghana.
Heliyon. 2022 Aug 28;8(9):e10420. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10420. eCollection 2022 Sep.
The need to improve maize production and develop agriculture led to the design and implementation of many flagship programmes in Ghana. Among these programmes is the rural growth credit programme. This paper used current data (2021) from credit-constrained maize farmers in the rural growth credit programme to extend the propensity score matching method to the analysis of credit impacts on farm productivity. The study used a sample of 130 farmers, comprising 65 farmers as a treatment group and 65 farmers as a control group. The findings of this paper indicate that, credit-constrained farmers who have access to the rural growth credit relatively have more productivity than credit-constrained farmers who did not have access to the credit. The paper therefore conclude that, the rural growth credit intervention program did achieved its intended purpose in respect of improving farm productivity in Ghana. It could therefore be deduced that credit interventions programs do have a positive impact on farm productivity in Ghana.
提高玉米产量和发展农业的需求促使加纳设计并实施了许多旗舰项目。农村增长信贷项目就是其中之一。本文利用农村增长信贷项目中受信贷约束的玉米种植农户的当前数据（2021年），将倾向得分匹配法扩展到信贷对农场生产力影响的分析中。该研究选取了130名农户作为样本，其中65名农户作为处理组，65名农户作为对照组。本文的研究结果表明，能够获得农村增长信贷的受信贷约束农户的生产力相对高于无法获得信贷的受信贷约束农户。因此，本文得出结论，农村增长信贷干预项目在提高加纳农场生产力方面确实达到了预期目的。由此可以推断，信贷干预项目对加纳的农场生产力确实有积极影响。
