At least 58,000 farmers have been supported under the Ghana Landscape Resto­ration and Small- Scale Mining Project (GLRSSMP) of the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innova­tion (MESTI) to restore degraded lands for agricultural productivity in the country They have restored lands be­tween three to 10 acres.

This came to light during a working tour to inspect ongo­ing projects including farms last Wednesday, by the MESTI, led by the Minister, Ophelia Mensah Hayford, in the Asante Akim South District in the Ashanti Region.

Mrs Hayford was excited the project would yield dividends in the fight against climate change as the farmers were planting trees alongside their cocoa plantation. "I think they are excited too, because now they are doing mixed cropping and are calling for the extension of the programme, "We will look for more funds to assist the farmers to restore all the degraded lands to enhance the fight against climate change," she underlined.

She encouraged the farmers to plant more trees because "it will also contribute to the storage of carbon credit for sale for foreign exchange to boost the economy".