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The Transition
Chairman,
Ovia North-east Local
Government Area,
Okada.
Sir,
INCESSANT GRAZING OF CATTLE ON
FARMLAND AND INDISCRIMINATE BURNING BY CATTLE REARERS.
We wish to
intimate you of the problems our farmer as a result of cattle rearers taking
their herds to graze on our farm lands. As a result of this, these animals have
destroyed various produce of our affiliate farmers. Among the crops destroyed
are cassava, yam and plantain. And as you know, these are these are the main
crops our farmers depend on for their livelihood. The continuous destruction of
these crops by the animals has brought untold hardship to the farmers which in
turn, results to poverty. Most painful is that most of these farmers uses loan
to develop their farms. Repayment will pose a problem if the trend is not
stopped.
Secondly,
the cattle rearers at the peak of dry season burn the bushes indiscriminately
with a view to stimulate new and succulent grass to feed their animal. This
fire escalates by harmattan wind to destroy crop and forest resources. This
indiscriminate bush burning according to research, have multidimensional effect
on the farms, forest land and the nation at large. Such that farmers life time
investment on farm can be destroyed by fire without compensation. forest
resources that are also destroyed expose soil to leaching and erosion.
Efforts
to address this issue with the cattle rearers have not yielded the desired
result as most of them turn out to be aggressive and some time, ready to attack
the farmers either with dagger or guns. We have proof to this fact.
Against this
background we humbly request the chairman to as matter of urgency, call the
cattle rearers to order and to ask them to remove their cattle from our farm
lands to avoid breakdown of peace and order and to be made to pay compensation
for crops destroyed. They should also be made to guarantee the Farmers Union in
Ovia North East that henceforth, they will stop indiscriminate bush burning as
this have caused great loss to farmers.
It
is our hope that your intervention will help to put an end to this menace of
the cattle rearers.
Thanks for your anticipated
co-operation.
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