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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. In 1993 timber and wood products ...
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]
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]
Forests of Ghana (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Forestry in Ghana" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes
A large area of the range has been declared a forest reserve, including about 17,400 hectares of upland evergreen forest, rare for Ghana. The reserve is managed by the Forestry Commission of Ghana in collaboration with other stakeholders, key among them is the Okyeman Environment Foundation, which has restricted people from farming in the area ...
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.
The forest has the most biological diversity of any in Ghana, with over 800 vascular plant species, 639 butterfly species, and more than 190 bird species. [4] [5] Animal life includes the elephant, bongo, leopard, western chimpanzee, [6] Diana monkey, [7] and other primates. Apart from the forest reserve which was selectively logged until 1976 ...