There is a looming food crisis in the Wenchi Municipality  of the Bono Region, as thousands of local and indigenous farmers in the local communities lose their livelihoods, and sustenance to wildfires.

The fires, the Sompa FM gathered from victims started last Monday February 3, 2025, and destroyed acres of cashew and crop farms, and left the affected communities in a state of despair.

During a visit to some communities in the municipality, our correspondents noticed that the fire swept through, and caused extensive destruction to more than 1,000 acres of cashew, cocoa, plantain, yam, cassava and maize farms.

The victims in the worst affected communities of Tromeso, Subinso, Bopetrem, Buoku and Abotare, therefore called for government intervention and support to re-plant their crops and economic trees to sustain their livelihoods.

In an interview with Sompa FM the victims attributed the cause of the fires to the influx, uncontrolled and unlawful cattle grazing activities of nomadic Fulani herdsmen who had settled in parts of the municipality.

The Reverend Dr Emmanuel Ameyaw-Akumfi, a farmer who lost several acres of cashew and cocoa farms at Tromeso, and also the spokesperson for the victims, regretted about the continuous arrival of the nomads in the municipality.

Sompaonline.com