Smallholder farmers in the Nabdam and Talensi Districts of the Upper East Region, has appealed to state actors to help them confront the challenges of elephants’ destruction of their farms during the harvesting seasons.
The joint stakeholders review meeting organized by the Maaltaaba Peasant Women Farmers’ Cooperative (MAPEWFAC), was aimed at reviewing the “ Empowering Rural Peasant Women Farmers to act through access to local & decentralized Policies, Programmes on Rural Agriculture and Livelihood (The EMPOWER Project) being implemented by MAPEWFAC, with funding support from STAR Ghana Foundation.
The farmers who belong to the Maaltaaba Peasant Women Farmers’ Cooperative (MAPEWFAC), made the appeal at joint project review meeting with stakeholders held in Bolganga on Saturday.
Speaking at the forum, one of the farmers who doubled as the overseer of traditional lands from Sakoti in the Nabdam District, Nahu Yamg , explained that the elephants often migrate from Burkina Faso through the Wildlife Corridors closer to the two District at the time farmers crop is getting ready for harvesting.
