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RESETTLEMENT GRANT
The Resettlement
Grant is the allowance given to EACH member of the affected
communities to mitigate the incidental costs and inconvenience of relocation. It is a one-off
payment sum of GH¢100 for ALL members of the community
including all age groups (babies to aged people).
TEMPORARY INCOME
SUPPORT
BPA has taken the view that the
resettled families would need some time to properly adjust to their
environment and re-establish their income generating activities even
though the new environment is considered to be an improvement on the
old settlement. A period of one year was considered to
be a reasonable time for this adjustment to effectively
occur. For this one year adjustment period, a
monthly allowance of GH¢100 is paid to each household as
support while the new farms are being tendered until full
production.
FARM GRANT
The Farm Grant is
an allowance paid to households to aid in preparing new farms lands
acquired for them by BPA as part of their resettlement. This amount
goes into ensuring that the cost of preparing the farm lands
provided is not borne by the resettled farmer.
BPA acquired two
acres of land for each household resettled under Part A
and made available GH¢50 to each household towards tilling
the land for the cultivation of crops. In August 2008, settler
farmers had started harvesting groundnut from farms tilled in May
2008.
Meanwhile, many settler
farmers still have access to their old farms until impoundment
begins in 2011. |
