Gold over crops: Illegal mining drives farmers away from food cultivation in Prestea

Gold over crops: Illegal mining drives farmers away from food cultivation in Prestea

It was one hot morning in 2023 when Mr. John Tawiah, popularly known as KK, a farmer in Amoanda, a community in the Prestea Huni-Valley District of the Western Region, lost his 35-acre farmland to illegal mining operations. He had been cultivating palm trees and cocoyam on the land for seven years. However, the head of the family, from whom he acquired the land, one day cancelled the tenancy, claimed the land for himself and sold it out to illeg…