The National Forest Plantation Development Programme under which the country's degraded forests are being re-planted is yielding good results in the Central Region, Mr Mike Nzulu, Assistant Manager of the Forestry Division, Central Region, has said.

He said this when the Deputy Minister of Lands and Forestry, Mr Thomas Broni inspected a 96-hectare re-planted forest along River Brimso at Sorodafo, near Cape Coast.

The Deputy Minister was on a two-day visit to assess the impact of the National Forest Plantation Development Programme in the Central Region.

Mr Nzulu said about 300,000 tree seedlings have been planted by the communities of Abaasa, Apeosika, Putubiw and Abuenu in the Cape Coast District.

He said the degraded forest in the region were in the Cape Coast, Upper Denkyira and Efutu-Awutu-Senya Districts and was caused by bush fire and bad farming methods.

On the activities of chainsaw operation Mr Nzulu said community forest committees in most of the communities had reduced their activities.

Addressing the farmers later Mr Broni praised them for their hard work, which, he said, would bring back the vegetation cover along the Brimso River.

He said the river that served as a source of drinking water for the people of Cape Coast and its surroundings would be saved from dying up when the trees grow.

He later gave the farmers 35 cutlasses and 15 pairs of Wellington boots.