Comparative Advantage And Rice Policy In Ghana

ABSTRACT ASSUMING-BREMPONG, SAMUEL, University of the Philippines at Los Banos (UPLB), October 1987. COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND RICE POLICY IN GHANA. Major Professor: Dr John C. Flinn. Even though rice is a minor staple in Ghana (WARDA estimated per capita consumption to be 6.7 kg. in 1983), and accounts for about 1 0% of all cereals, its imports to the country have been second only to wheat which is not grown domestically. Successive governments in Ghana have therefore declared an objective of rice self-sufficiency. This means that the option of import substitution for rice has been adopted a…