The state and capitalist rice farming in the Builsa District of Northern Ghana

The importance of Northern labour to the Southern economy has been mentioned, but it is on the foodmarkets of the South that the Northern economy in the future should depend…. whether the North at a later stage could become an exporter of food to the world market is, at this stage, purely a matter of conjecture…. The North has three major assets, none of which have yet been developed. Large areas of unused land, rivers and labour. ¹