AstraZeneca supports agroforestry, forest restoration : To plant 4.5 million trees by 2025
AstraZeneca has partnered the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance (CBA) to support farmers in the Bono East Region through the Living Lab project to improve soil fertility in the region and to also support the farmers to plant cash crops such as cashew.
This is to help the farmers to improve and diversify their incomes.
The five-year project also seeks to restore the forest landscape of the Atebubu and Wiase forests, and will see the planting of 4.5 million trees by 2025.
In an interview after a field trip to the project sites, a Director of the New Generation Plantations Technical Assistance (NGPTA) providing technical assistance for the project, Andrew Heald, said: “What we are trying to do with this project is to find a balance among forest restoration, agro forestry development and g...
