The effect of bush fires on agriculture in the savanna environment -a geomorphological approach - a study of the Western Dagomba agricultural zone [Ghana]
1980
Alidu, F.
Attention is focussed on the effects of bush fires on the savanna areas, especially the Western Dagomba district of Ghana, which is an agricultural area. Bush burning is a traditional practice of local pyromaniacs in this area; the act being embibed by farmers as an aid to bush clearing for farming, and as a prelude to emerging soft grazing grass. On a controlled basis, bush-burning is beneficial and compatible to farming practices in this area in addition to its use in controlling tsetse fly and other disease vectors, but when uncontrolled, is responsible for the mass destruction of already degraded savanna vegetation, with attendant biological and ecological imbalances. It further advocates some method of controlling the incidence of bush fires but cautions that such a measure would be difficult to implement since it is regarded by farmers as an indispensable tool in the farming processes
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