PERTINENCE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL within the sweetening OF COCOA PRODUCTION IN SANTCHOU, CAMEROON

The importance of social capital is another new stylised reality in promoting agriculture. The study has as objective to look at the impact of social capital within the sweetening of cocoa production and to see the challenges faced by cocoa producers in Santchou. Methodologically, we've created a social capital index through the appliance of Multiple Correspondence Analyses mistreatment primary information collected at intervals the Santchou cocoa zone and also the probit model is employed for regression estimates. The result unconcealed a robust correlation between social capital and cocoa production, whereas the amount of education, sex, legal status, money standing, expertise in faming, family size and agricultural coaching are powerfully corroborating with the determinants of social capital. additionally, farm size, level of education, application of farm inputs (pesticides and fertilizers), fashionable instrumentality, global climate change, access to credit and legal right system were ascertained to be the foremost challenges faced by cocoa farmers in Santchou. we advise that cocoa farmer’s social network ought to be improved to modify them simply get assistant once necessary.

Please see full information