Kwahu Tafo, Nov. 29. GNA - Over 40 food crop and vegetable farmers in the Kwahu Tafo area in the Kwahu South District have appealed to the government to assist them protect their farms from further destruction by cattle belonging to Fulani herdsmem, which have been invading the area.

According to the farmers, large hectares of their maize, yam, groundnuts, beans and vegetable farms were being destroyed by the herds in recent times.

Speaking to the GNA at Kwahu Tafo, on Friday, a spokesman for the farmers, Mr Yaw Boateng, popularly know as "Wofa Yaw", regretted that despite a series of complaints made by the farmers to the Kwahu Tafo police and the chief of the town, Nana Ameyaw Gyensiamah, there had been no payment of compensation to the affected farmers.

He said the Fulani herdsmen, who are armed with cutlasses, rifles and clubs, attacked and assaulted them and "even raped women on their farms when they complained about the destruction of their crops."

The spokesman said most of their water bodies have been destroyed by the cattle, while the herdsmen have started setting bushfire to obtain fresh grass for their animals.

He warned that if measures were not taken to check the herdsmen, bush fires disasters would increase during the forthcoming dry season.