Stop leasing land for teak plantation

Nkoranza (B/A), Aug. 28, GNA - Mr. Joseph Kwame Nsiah, a 54- year-old farmer at Nyinase in Nkoranza South district, has appealed to traditional authorities and landowners to discontinue releasing land for teak cultivation, saying the practice would affect food production. He told the Ghana News Agency at Nkoranza that studies had revealed that no food crop grows well in areas where there are teak trees. "Because teak trees have longer lifespan they re-germinate after they have been felled and no food crop can be cultivated at such places", he said.

The farmer suggested proper management of state teak plantations so that individual plots of land could be reserved for food crop cultivation. 28 Aug 09