‘No solution to invasion of wild animals into agricultural fields’

Farmers say Forest Department’s failed to stop this menace

Condemning the Department of Forest’s failure to check invasion of wild animals into fields along Western Ghats as it caused extensive damage to the standing crops, farmers from various parts of the district staged demonstration in front of the Collectorate here on Friday.

Led by Vadakarai S. T. Shaik Maideen of Communist Party of India and Zakhir Hussein, vice-president of Farmers’ Federation for Linking of South Indian Rivers, the farmers raised slogans against the Department of Forest. They said the invasion of elephants, wild boars, deer and other animals into agriculture lands along Western Ghats was continuing for the past several decades due to the gross failure of the official machinery. Had the Forest Department dug trenches between the Western Ghats and agricultural fields and erected solar-powered fence, it would have effectively checked the invasion of the animals.