Assessing the Contribution of Pito Brewing to the Growth and Development of Small-Scale Enterprising in Wa Municipality.

Abstract

In this paper, the contribution of women in Pito brewing enterprising is reported. The purpose of the current study is to critically assess the contribution of Pito brewing as women-dominated business entity in the Wa Municipality. The study indicated that majority of the women 60.2% do not have formal education and only 1.1% of them managed to enrolled into tertiary level. Again, with regard to marital status of the Pito brewers only 89.8% of them are currently in marital homes and few divorcees and widows as 1.4% and 2.8 % respectively. The study also described the correlation between the chosen variables, monthly profit, educational level, sources of fund and marital status, Pearson correlation was selected and applied to each variable to itself and the indication reflects perfect correlation. The best correlation is between financial support and qualification level (0.746) and marriage (0.732) respectively. Finally, in terms of monthly profit gained from the Pito brewing in Ghana Cedis. Majority (53.6%) of the brewers receive monthly profit between Ghc1100 and Ghc2000 and only few (3.2%) receive above Ghc3000.These indicated that women in the entrepreneurship sector need to be supported financially and as well as be given new skills and managerial processes.

Keywords: Contribution, Assessing, Pito Brewing; Enterprises; Development

DOI: 10.7176/JESD/15-5-01

Publication date: June 30th 2024