Over 25,000 hectares of poor-yielding farm lands across the country have been restored under the Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small- Scale Mining Project (GLRSSMP), aimed at ensuring improved yields in crop production towards the country's food security.
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Mrs Ophelia Mensah Hayford, outlined this here yesterday when she visited some farms benefiting from the Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small- Scale Mining Project (GLRSSMP) to ascertain the impact of the initiative.
The programme is an initiative of MESTI in collaboration with the Forestry Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Ghana Cocoa Board, and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
In all, more than one million hectares of farm lands, forest and wild life protected areas had received some level of improvement under the project.