The Northern region is among the poorest in Ghana. The Southern regions possess a lot of natural resources, and at the same time viable for the production of cash crops. The Northern regions however, have agriculture as their most dependable source of livelihood. The proportion of people working as farmers in the region is 73%, making it the highest in the country. In the light of this, most developmental programs in the region are agriculture based. However, the impact of these programs is not being felt as farmers continue to experience lower harvest and productivity. We however blamed the situation on the absence or inappropriate Needs Assessment. We tried to establish from the farmers the programs they found successful. It was established that, an insignificant number of programs were adjudged successful. Reasons why they considered projects successful or otherwise were also investigated. Combining the results from the data and the practical application of the techniques in the study area, we prioritized these techniques. It was realized that individual group techniques were complements to group techniques in the context of the study area. A case is made for the prioritized techniques as well as further discussion on the highly prioritized ones.

Despite the enormous diversification Turkey has made, agriculture still remains the backbone of its economy. Most of the successes Turkey's economy has chalked came in the last 15 years; after 2000. The agricultural contribution to both gross domestic product and employment fell within this period. The answer to the state of the sector is not found in its contribution to gross domestic product or employment but the progress in its total factor productivity growth. This is defined as that part of agricultural output growth that is not explained by changes in factors of production. Like all scientific procedures, there is no one way of estimating total factor productivity growth. Considering the advantages and disadvantages methods possess over one another, it is always logical to apply more than one technique on the same data set to establish a range within which the results can be established. We settled on Data envelopment analysis malmquist productivity index and the growth accounting approach. We gathered data on agricultural output and ten inputs at the national, from 2000 to 2014. They were simultaneously applied on our data. The total factor productivity of Turkish agricultural sector grew at 28.8%, with an annual growth rate of 2%.