Title Page
ABSTRACT
Contents
LIST OF ACRONYMS 10
Chapter One. INTRODUCTION 12
Background of the Study 12
Problem Statement 16
Purpose of Study 17
CHAPTER TWO. LITERATURE REVIEW 19
Overview of Ghana's state of Agriculture. 19
Youth participating in non-agriculture 20
Youth in Agriculture. 22
Alternative Career Choices for the Youth 23
The Graduates' Perception of Agriculture 25
Motivating the Educated Youth for Agriculture 26
Unemployment 28
Graduate Unemployment Situation in Ghana 31
Youth in Agriculture Program in Ghana 39
CHAPTER THREE. STUDY AREA AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 45
The Target Area 45
Research Design 47
Sampling Technique 48
Sample Size Determination 49
Data Collection 49
Conceptual Framework 50
Questionnaires 54
Reliability and Validity 56
Chapter Four. Analysis and interpretation 57
Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents 57
Factors that prevent Graduate Youth to Participate in Agriculture 59
The kind of agriculture graduate youth in Ghana Prefer 62
Factors that could enable the Graduate Youth reach the type of Agriculture they desire 63
Ways to integrate Graduate Youth into Agriculture 67
CHAPTER FIVE. CONCLUSION 70
Summary of Findings 70
Recommendations 74
BIBLIOGRAPHY 77
APPENDICES 87
QUESTIONNAIRE 87
요약 95
Table 3.1. List of research participants and data collection methods 54
Table 4.1. Socio-economic characteristics of respondents 57
Table 4.2. Difficulty of entering into agriculture by graduate youth 61
Table 4.3. Type of agriculture the graduate youth will want to participate in 63
Table 4.4. Ratings of agribusiness management training 64
Table 4.5. Rating of extension visits by graduate youth 66
Figure 1.1. Map of the Tamale Metropolis 46
Figure 3.1. Conceptual Framework 52
Figure 4.1. shows size of land acquired by both settler and indigene graduate... 65
Figure 4.2. Ways graduate youth can be successfully integrated into the... 68