KemiO
Moderator
The Commissioner for Forestry, Ayo Olubori said during a meeting with timber contractors, sawmill operators, village heads (baales) and other stakeholders in Abeokuta on Friday that Ondo state has estimated a loss of N60bn in the past fifteen years and N4bn monthly to illegal lumbering by farmers in its forest reserves.
He was astonished at this development because about 365, 000 hectares of land has been allocated to farming in the state.
He later resolved that the solution to the problem was regeneration of the states' forest reserves for adequate re-planting of economic trees destroyed by cocoa farmers.
He also cautioned cocoa farmers and others involved in the illegal act that stiffer penalties will be issued to them if they do not desist from such illegal activities.
He was astonished at this development because about 365, 000 hectares of land has been allocated to farming in the state.
He later resolved that the solution to the problem was regeneration of the states' forest reserves for adequate re-planting of economic trees destroyed by cocoa farmers.
He also cautioned cocoa farmers and others involved in the illegal act that stiffer penalties will be issued to them if they do not desist from such illegal activities.
