Simon Cudjoe Fialor
The researcher conducts a comprehensive study that integrates extensive field research across diverse domains to assess various facets of agricultural productivity, valuation, efficiency, sustainability, resource management, and biological processes. This integrated approach spans communities, regions, and cultural contexts, employing both applied and theoretical methods to provide insights into the economic dynamics and practical innovations driving agricultural practices.
Faculty Biography
Prof. Fialor was promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi in 2012. He graduated from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bamgalore, India with a BSc Agricultural Marketing and Co-operation in 1983 and MSc in Agricultural Economics in 1986. He was appointed a lecturer in the Department in October 1986 and proceeeded to the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England in 1990 where he obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1994. Since then he has been at the KNUST, involved in teaching, research in several areas of eoconomics relevance,, consultancy and different community services related to his professional area. His teaching and research works focus on the major topics in agricultural economics, with emphasis on agricultural marketing and policy, agribusiness and development economics issues.
Agricultural Innovations and Practices
Agricultural risk and resilience
Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Economic Growth and Productivity
Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
Global socioeconomic and cultural dynamics
Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
Livestock and Poultry Management
Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
Mining and Resource Management
Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
Peanut Plant Research Studies
Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
Nature and performance of smoked marine fish markets. Evidence from Ghana
Open AccessImpact of positive selection technology on seed yam productivity
Open AccessImpact of Positive Selection Technology on Seed Yam Productivity
Open AccessDrivers of smoked marine fish prices and challenges along the value chain
Author response for "Drivers of smoked marine fish prices and challenges along the value chain"
Profitability of positive selection technique for seed yam production in Ghana and Nigeria
Open AccessCurrent Strategies in Economics and Management Vol. 8
The role of improved technology to enhance Total Factor Productivity (TFP): The case of quality seed yam production in Ghana and Nigeria
Contract farming and rice production efficiency in Ghana
Impact of contract farming on rice farm performance: Endogenous switching regression
Open AccessTechnical and Resource Use Efficiency of Urban Vegetable Farming in the Kumasi Metropolis: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
Open AccessImpact of Irrigation Ecology on Rice Production Efficiency in Ghana
Open AccessProduction Efficiency of Smallholder Rice Farms under Contract Farming Scheme in Ghana
Open AccessWillingness to Pay for Biofertilizers among Grain Legume Farmers in Northern Ghana
Open AccessThe Impact of Irrigation on The Reproductive Growth Parameters of Mango In A Coastal Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Ghana
Mining Effects on Rural Livelihoods, Adopted Strategies and the Role of Stakeholder and Regulatory Institutions in Ghana. Evidence of the Amansie West District of Ghana
Open AccessImpact of Improved Rice Variety on Productivity Among Smallholder Farmers in Ghana
Open AccessDecomposition Analysis of Technological Change in Rice Production in Ghana
Open AccessVarietal Adoption and Economics of Rice Production in Ejura-Sekyedumase and Atebubu-Amantin Municipalities of Ghana
Dibba et al 2012 Food Security
Effects of dietary inclusions of oilseed meals on physical characteristics and feed intake of diets for the Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus
Open AccessDigestibility and postprandial ammonia excretion in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fed diets containing different oilseed by-products
Determinants of Supply of Locally Processed Poultry Meat in Greater Accra Region of Ghana
Performance of Micro and Small Scale Agribusinesses in Northern Region of Ghana: Non-financial Analysis
Open AccessLocal agro-industrial by-products with potential use in Ghanaian aquaculture: a review
Willingness to Pay for Faecal Compost by Farmers in Southern Ghana
The impact of NERICA adoption on productivity and poverty of the small-scale rice farmers in the Gambia
Ghanaian health and agricultural administrators' perceptions of the health and economic effects of aflatoxin contamination of groundnuts.
Effect of a Food Crop Development Project on Livelihood of Small-Scale Maize Farmers, Ghana
Estimation of Margins and Efficiency in the Ghanaian Yam Marketing Chain
Open AccessEconomics of small-scale seed yam production in Ghana: implications for commercialization.
Factors Influencing Market Participants Decision to Sort Groundnuts along the Marketing Chain in Ghana
Examining the structure of awareness and perceptions of groundnut aflatoxin among Ghanaian health and agricultural professionals and its influence on their actions
Groundnut consumption frequency in Ghana
Are Ghanaians aware of the aflatoxin menace?
Wear rate of animal-drawn ploughshares in selected Ghanaian soils
Estimating the demand for municipal waste compost via farmers’ willingness-to-pay in Ghana
AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRODUCTION PATTERN AND MARKETING OF COCOA IN GHANA
Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology