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Ghanaian pineapple growers ask for police protection against aggressive project developers

Fresh Pineapple
Ghana
Published Jan 21, 2022

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Eight pineapple-growing communities in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri municipality in Ghana's eastern region have appealed to the government to provide them with police protection from the activities of foremen and property developers in the area. The communities of Fotobi, Amanfo, Attakrom, Kwesidoe, Abirem, Boade, Gonnsee and Obodan feel threatened by their activities as they damage their farms.

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They have also appealed to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources and the Land Commission to support their action. Sources say the wardens had taken acres of land and handed it over to a property developer, who destroyed some of the growers' pineapple farms and other foodstuffs. The growers could not go to their farms to harvest their crops because of the insecurity created by the land guards, who use firearms, and which affected their ...
Source: AGF
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