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The forestry sector of Ghana accounted for 4.2 percent of GDP in 1990; timber was the country's third largest foreign exchange earner. Since 1983 forestry has benefited from more than US$120 million in investments and has undergone substantial changes, resulting in doubled earnings between 1985 and 1990.
The Forestry Commission is a Government of Ghana agency under the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources. [1] The commission has three divisions and two centres: Forest Services Division; Wildlife Division; Timber Industry Development Division; Forestry CommissionTraining Centre; Resource Management Support Centre [2]
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana; N. NICOL Forests UK This page was last edited on 21 January 2020, at 05:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources was established under Section 11 of the Civil Service Law 1993 PNDC Law 327. The ministry as part of its mandate is to ensure the sustainable management and utilization of the nation's lands, forests and wildlife resources as well as the efficient management of the mineral resources for socio-economic growth and development. [3]
The 26th National Farmers' Day of the 2010 Ghana-KITA Best Institution Award in Ashanti Region. Agriculture in Ghana consists of a variety of agricultural products and is an established economic sector, providing employment on a formal and informal basis. [1] [2] It is represented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. [3]
Unlike the agricultural livestock, forestry and fishing sectors, the crop sector is key to the Ghanaian agricultural industry. [72] Ghana produced in 2018: 20.8 million tons of cassava (4th largest producer in the world, second only to Nigeria, Thailand and Congo); 7.8 million tonnes of yam (2nd largest producer in the world, second only to ...
The Asubima Forest Reserve is a 7,870-hectare (19,400-acre) protected area near Akumadan, Ghana and was established in 1945. FORM Ghana, a plantation development company, manages 1,729.9 hectares (4,275 acres) of the southern part of the reserve to reforest land in the reserve that has been highly degraded due to logging, wildfires, and illegal farming.
Forestry in Ghana (1 C, 5 P) I. ... Mining industry of Ghana; S. Salt industry in Ghana This page was last edited on 20 January 2020, at 22:34 (UTC ...