Ghana: Tension Mounts Between Farmers, Chiefs Over Farming in Desiri Forest Reserve

Tension is mounting between farmers, who cultivate crops within the Desiri Forest Reserve, near Tepa, in the Ahafo North Municipality of Ahafo Region, and some chiefs, overfarming on portion of the reserve.

The farmers, numbering about 1,000 claim that some thugs sent by the chiefs have been attacking them after they refused to heed the request by the chiefs to share their farm produce with them, because the land belongs to them.

According to farmers, the Forestry Commission (FC) allocated portion…