Old tractors, new policies and induced technological transformation: agricultural mechanisation, class formation, and market liberalisation in Ghana
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Date
2022
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Taylor & Francis Group
Abstract
This article examines the recent uptake of tractor ploughing services
in northern Ghana. It examines the historical continuities in
mechanisation and the emergence of a class of medium-scale
commercial farmers. In the light of this, it questions the thesis that
the recent uptake of mechanisation and emergence of medium scale farmers reflects the successes of market liberalisation. It is
critical of neoclassical theories of agricultural transformation rooted
in theories of induced innovation and argues for a political
economy approach that links agricultural transformation to
processes of social differentiation and the historical role of the
state in promoting agricultural commercialisation.
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Research Article
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Agricultural mechanisation, state-market relations, agricultural commercialisation, induced technology transformation, Ghana