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records and unreliable information. With the experience obtained from the
2006/2007 season, the number of farmers was increased to 120 in the
2007/2008 season maintaining most of the farmers used in the previous
season and also farmers were selected from the Burkina Faso section of the
study area. At the end of the season 114 of the farmers notebooks could be
retrieved. The reason is that some travelled with their notebooks at the end
of the season, some also lost their notebooks due to rain and fire while others
left their farms in the middle of the season due to several reasons thus
stopped recording and took the topics away. Out of the 114 farm notebooks,
90 contained complete data sets and were found useful, while the remaining
had information gaps. The records of the 90 farmers of the 2007/2008
irrigation season were finally used for the analysis
(Table 6.1)
.
Table 6.1: Tomato farmers surveyed and analysed for the 2007/2008 season.
Catchment Area
Area
Technology (water source) Anayari Atankwidi Yarigatanga Total
Upper East
Region,
Ghana
Small reservoirs
25/15
0
22/20
47/35
Permanent shallow wells
12/7
0
0
12/7
Large reservoirs
0
0
6/6
6/6
Riverine water
0
0
11/8
11/8
Temporal shallow wells
0
8/8
0
8/8
Riverine alluvial dugouts
0
17/16
0
17/16
Southern
Burkina Faso
Small reservoirs
0
7/4
0
7/4
Permanent shallow wells
0
8/4
4/2
12/6
Total
37/22
40/32
43/36
120/90
a/b: a represents surveyed farmers, b represents analysed farmers
The data collected were diverse but common for all irrigation technologies. It
included primary and secondary data/information from the farmers, farmer
organisations and related institutions such as the Ministry of Food and
Agriculture (MOFA) and the Irrigation Development Authority (IDA). The
methodology employed include daily recording of activities (water
consumption, time input, farm inputs, operating costs and sales), field
interviews (farmers, farmer organisations and related institutions), field
counts, plot size measuerment, irrigation water-use measurements, yield
measurements and market information.
6.3 F
IELD
R
ESULTS
This section analyses the data of tomato farmers listed in
Table 6.1
for the
2007/2008 irrigation season. The investments in water and water
infrastructure for various technologies were analysed including the seasonal
expenditure on water per each technology. Also seasonal application of water,
fertilizer and pesticides were estimated for the various irrigation technologies.
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