{"id":744,"date":"2020-12-04T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cifor.org\/gml\/?p=744"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:46:04","slug":"postcards-from-the-field-diversifying-small-scale-rubber-farmers-incomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cifor.org\/gml\/postcards-from-the-field-diversifying-small-scale-rubber-farmers-incomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from the field: Diversifying small-scale rubber farmers\u2019 incomes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Margaret Arwari<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27 November 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Agbenyegah Kwami Horgli interviewing a rubber farmer <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Agbenyegah Kwami Horgli is a final year student pursuing master\u2019s degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of Ghana. Having grown in a family of farmers from Akatsi, in the Volta region in Ghana, made him interested in studying agricultural sciences. \u201cPopulation is growing at a fast rate and hence increasing the demand for agricultural commodities,\u201d said Horgli. \u201cTherefore, amidst the scarce resources, it is important to increase the number of agricultural communities,\u201d he added.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 30-year-old student started working in October 2020 with the Forest and Horticultural Crops Research Center (FOHCREC) at the University of Ghana, a partner of the Center of International Forestry Research (CIFOR)\u2019s Governing Multifunctional Landscapes<\/a> (GML) project, which is funded by the European Union. Kwami\u2019s role entails conducting surveys of small-scale farmers in Atiwa Landscape \u2013 which covers the Atiwa West district and Kwaebibirem municipality \u2013 in the Eastern region of Ghana.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Agbenyegah Kwami Horgli in a rubber farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Horgli\u2019s research focuses on studying rubber farmers in the Kwaebibirem municipality. From his involvement in the GML project, he is learning that most rubber farmers practise monocropping, but some of them intercrop with other crops at the early stages of the rubbers, between 1-3 years. \u201cIt would be good for farmers to intercrop the rubber with some permanent tree crops to enhance their income,\u201d said Horgli. \u201cFor income diversification, rubber farmers can also integrate small livestock and bees in their farms, so they don\u2019t encroach forest areas to expand their farms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy interviewing farmers I have learned that they are willing to preserve the forest, but when they experience low yields and when they lose their lands to \u201cgalamsey\u201d (artisanal mining), they are forced to look for new farm lands in the forest areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horgli\u2019s professional ambition is to become a researcher on the challenges faced by farmers in forest areas. \u201cI like forests and I would like to see them protected from destruction by agricultural expansion,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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