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🇬🇭 The cattle breeds of Ghana

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Ghana's farming is built on crops rather than cattle: cassava, yams, cocoa and oil palm lead a sector that employs over half the workforce. Cattle enter the picture at the edges, in the drier northern savanna, where the sweet potato crop also serves as livestock feed. Most fields depend on rain rather than irrigation.

  • Sweet potato, a prime crop of northern Ghana, is also grown as feed for livestock.
  • Agriculture gave work to 53.6 percent of Ghana's labour force in 2013.
  • Climatic bands cross Ghana east to west, from dry savanna down to wet forest.
  • About 57 percent of Ghana's land is classed as agricultural.
  • Workers from the northern savanna have long migrated to cocoa farms in the south.

Cattle in Ghana

Cattle keeping sits at the margins of Ghanaian farming, which is overwhelmingly a farming of crops. Cassava, yams, plantain, maize and cocoa lead the output, and agriculture employed more than half the labour force in 2013. The country's climatic zones run in east–west bands, with open savanna grassland in the drier north giving way to wet forest in the south. It is the northern side, where the sweet potato is a prime crop, that touches on livestock: the roots feed animals as well as people. Farming is largely rainfed, so drought and a changing climate bear heavily on it. About 57 percent of Ghana's land is classed as agricultural, though only part is cultivated and a small share is irrigated. Communities differ too: northern workers have long travelled south to labour on cocoa farms.

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