State the Constraints to Crop Production in Africa

      

State the Constraints to Crop Production in Africa

  

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Felix
1.Poverty
Poverty is indicated both by the few capital resources and the low cash incomes making it difficult to profitably invest in agriculture.

2.Seed
The adoption of improved varieties of principal food crops is minimal.

3. Agro-chemicals
The use of fertilisers and pesticide among the peasant farmers is low which could be due to high cost or poor availability or both.
The use of herbicide, insecticide and fungicides is minimal.
Farmers generally lack spraying equipment and technical skills for the timely and effective application of pesticides.

4. Labour constraints
Labour constraints are particularly serious because of the low level of adoption of animal traction

Anganifelix answered the question on June 11, 2018 at 10:13


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