1 The rate of adoption and factors influencing Farmers’ adoption of hermetic storage technology in Dormaa, Ghana Namah Taku-Forchu, Iowa State University 227 Curtiss Hall Ames, IA 50011 Email: namah@iastate.edu Misty D. Lambert, North Carolina State University Michael S. Retallick, Iowa State University Jonathan D. Ulmer, Kansas State University George P. Opit, Oklahoma State University KEYWORDS: Post-harvest loss, hermetic storage technology, adoption, maize storage, Ghana