Poor implementation derailing Ghana’s fantastic afforestation efforts – Engr. Dr. Mensah
Poor implementation of tree planting and forest conservation programmes has been the bane of efforts to keep a green environment over the years.
This was revealed by Dr Prosper Mensah, an Engineer and Research Scientist at the Forestry Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-FORIG).
He said the country had over the years introduced good programmes aimed at restoring the depleted forest cover and to promote a green environment, but the implementation of such initiatives had always been a challenge.
“We have had good programmes which are supposed to yield results, but my concern is, what has been the output? Can we count and quantify the trees planted per the amount of money invested,” he asked in an interview with the Ghana News Agency.
He ...