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Errata: Assessing the Economic Efficiency of Maize Production in Northern Ghana
Abstract
An error which inadvertently occurred in the Ghana Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2017 is hereby corrected as follows:
Section: Authors’ names and institutional addresses
Error:
1. Paul Kwame Nkegbe University for Development Studies, Campus, Ghana
2. Samuel A. Donkor
Correction:
1. Campus should be changed to Tamale.
2. Donkor should be replaced as Donkoh
Section: Abstract
Error:
1. First sentence of abstract: This study used the stochastic frontier model to examine the technical, allocative and economic efficiency of maize production in northern Ghana using cross-sectional data for the 2011/2012 cropping season
2. Last sentence of abstract: Fertilizer and labour are currently being over-used and requires 82.8% and 94.5% reductions respectively to reach their allocatively efficient points.
Correction:
1. Instead, it should be efficiencies.
2. Replace with require
Section: Introduction
Error:
Line 6, third sentence: The introduction of output enhancing technologies such as improved seeds for cereals like maize, and use of agrochemicals raised agriculture productivity and transformed it into a modern sector in Asia.
Correction:
Replace with agricultural
Sub-section: Maize Production in Ghana (pp 124)
Error:
First sentence: The aim of Ghana’s Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan (METASSIP) is to modernise agriculture which
Correction:
Insert METASSIP.
