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Sand winning activities are destroying our farmlands – Horbor residents [1]

About 90 per cent of arable lands in Horbor, a farming community within the Ga South Municipality in the Greater Accra Region, have been destroyed by indiscriminate sand winning activities.

Publication Date: 
30/08/2017
Ghana Web (Ghana) [2]
Tags:
Mining [3], Illegal Trade [4], Agriculture [5], Ghana [6], Ecology [7], Africa [8]
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ghana
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecology
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa