Subject(s): 3 selected / Genre: 35 mm slide - Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past

Start Over Subject(s) cash crop Subject(s) agriculture Subject(s) tobacco Genre 35 mm slide

Description:: Tobacco began to be grown as a cash crop in the Banda area in the early 1980s. Here young people tie leaves to the branches from which the tobacco will be suspended while hanging in the drying barn. Visible in the background are two drying barns built of cement block and roofed with iron sheets. Tobacco companies advanced farmers the materials to build these barns against the farmer's crop. Between the drying barns is a stack of wood brought in by tractor to fuel fires in the barns. In the background of one photo, men carry headpans filled with tobacco which they have brought from farm. Two photos. South side of Ahenkro, July-August, 1986.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Drying barns; Children's work; Wood piles; Headpans; Men's work
Subjects Facet:: Lifting and carrying; Firewood; Tobacco; Metal roofing; Agriculture; Building; Cash crops
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1986
Date searchable:: 1986-07/08
Genre:: ;35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163264, -2.356141
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.163264, -2.356141

Description:: A tractor-plowed field close to the Banda hills on the outskirts of Ahenkro has been planted with tobacco. Tobacco farming began in the Banda area in the 1980s and was common by the 1990s as many farmers took up commercial tobacco production. After tobacco farming was banned by the Traditional Council, some open fields like these were planted in cashew, the cash crop in which many Banda farmers invested from the early 2000s. Others have been used for mono-cropping (fields used for a single crop type) cash crops that are annuals. Northwest of Ahenkro, May, 1995.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16784 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17514
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Tobacco field; Tractor plowing
Subjects Facet:: Tobacco; Agriculture; Mountains; Cash crops; Agricultural lands
Identifier:: 15
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1995
Date searchable:: 1995-05
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Banda;8.164809, -2.367473
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.164809, -2.367473

Description:: A field planted with tobacco near the Banda hills northwest of Ahenkro. Banda area farmers began to go into commercial tobacco farming in the 1980s. In preparation to grow tobacco, fields were clear cut and plowed by tractor. Tobacco seedlings were transplanted into the mono-cropped fields. Farmers used commercial fertilizers supplied by tobacco buyers who advanced money on cured leaves. These large cleared fields rapidly lost soil fertility. After tobacco farming was banned by the Traditional Council in the early 2000s, these open fields were often planted with other cash crops, like cashew. Northwest of Ahenkro, 1994.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Relation:: https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-17514 ; https://exhibits.library.uvic.ca/spotlight/iaff/catalog/17-16786
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Fertilizers; Tractor plowing
Subjects Facet:: Tobacco; Agriculture; Cash crops; Agricultural lands
Identifier:: 28
Creator:: Dr. M. Dores Cruz
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1994
Date searchable:: 1994-06/07
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Banda;8.167263, -2.366883
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.167263, -2.366883

Description:: View from the mountain gap in the Banda hills west of Ahenkro, looking southeast toward the range of hills near Boase. A clear-cut tractor-plowed field (foreground) awaits planting of tobacco seedlings. Tobacco was grown as a cash crop in Banda from the mid-1980s through the 1990s until its cultivation was banned by the Banda Traditional Council. Beyond the field are houses in Gbao and savanna woodland extending to the Boase range. Outskirts of Ahenkro, 1994.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Gbao; Savanna woodland; Tobacco field; Vegetation
Subjects Facet:: Tobacco; Landscapes; Agriculture; Villages; Mountains; Cash crops; Agricultural lands
Identifier:: 36
Creator:: Dr. M. Dores Cruz
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1994
Date searchable:: 1994
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Location(s):: Banda;8.165415, -2.375886
Date Digitized:: 2016
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Veronique Plante
Geographic Coordinates:: 8.165415, -2.375886

Description:: To the right of a large tree, a field planted with tobacco is seen from the roadside. After clear-cutting, the rectangular field was tractor-plowed and planted with seedlings provided by the Pioneer Tobacco Company. Trees left standing mark the edges of the field. Visible in foreground is scarring created by construction of a new grated road. Near Nyrie, June, 1994.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 1994-06
Location(s) Facet:: Nyire
Subjects:: Tobacco field; Tractor plowing
Subjects Facet:: Tobacco; Cash crops; Agriculture; Farming
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1994
Date searchable:: 1994-06
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Nyire
Date Digitized:: 2020
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