INTRODUCTION
Sub-Sahara Africa consists of farmers who mostly reside
in rural communities. The rural population is expanding
rapidly while accessibility to health, education and even
food is becoming increasingly difficult. For instance,
about 800 million people in the developing world do not
have enough to eat and out of this figure, about 180
million live in Sub-Saharan Africa (Sofi, 2001). This
gloomy picture is emerging in a fast changing environment
where most developing countries are at various
stages in the process of economic liberalization. Economic
liberalization means removal of all sort of economic
restrictions such as price control on farm produce,
government withdrawal from economic activities such as