Farmers of Bhimeshwar say: How long will we continue farming if we can't eat?

”Monkeys destroy the crops, as much as the corn is to the monkey, it is to us, that is why it is broken in the bud”

Shrawn 11, 2082

Kedar Shiwakoti

Farmers of Bhimeshwar say: How long will we continue farming if we can't eat?

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Rasmita Subedi is cautiously sitting in the hot sun with an umbrella on the grass nearby. There is greenery all around. The weather has opened. But there is fear on his face - that a monkey will enter the bar from somewhere.

Rasmita of Bhimeshwar Municipality-7 is doing post graduation studies. But for 10 days, she has been watching the monkey in the garden and destroying the crops planted. She says that her parents come and stay here all day long to protect the crops planted by their parents. She said that hundreds of monkeys destroy crops within minutes.

'This is living all day in the square of Bhir, when the monkey comes, I call the village,' she said, 'but the monkey surrounds women and children and beats them, that's why I call them. "At first, the monkey ran away when it was chased." Now it is going to go above us, if the wind comes, we have to run away,' she said, 'It destroys the crops in a minute, destroys the crops of the year.' She said that she was breaking corn in August because she could not eat it because of the fear of monkeys.

Farmers of Bhimeshwar say: How long will we continue farming if we can't eat?

"In my old age, I sowed corn to eat, but I can't eat it," she said, "Monkeys destroy the crops, as much as the corn is for monkeys, it is hard for us, that's why it is broken in the bud."

'Not only in the garden, the monkey comes to the house and makes a mess,' she said, 'this time, the monkey entered the house, took the grain leaves and ate as much as it could eat in the garden, and threw the rest away, I didn't know it had caused so much damage.' She said that she had to leave the village because of the fear of the monkey.

Due to the fear of monkeys, the farmers of Bhimeshwar-7 have left farming and started keeping the land barren. 78-year-old Bhoj Bahadur was found sitting alone in the fields while watching the monkeys make corn husks by raising their heads.

Farmers of Bhimeshwar say: How long will we continue farming if we can't eat?

He stopped sowing corn after suffering from monkeys and this year he sowed corn on a small land. But he said that as soon as Sutla arrived, the monkey made a shack and decided not to do farming. He said, "Monkeys left farming in the fields around the house from last year, after sowing corn in a small field this year, all the monkeys have done it after the locust attack. I will not do farming anymore." "In the winter, we planted as much as we could to feed our stomachs, but we cannot eat that too," he said. Most of the farmers of Bhimeshwar-7 complain that the government has not brought any plan to control monkeys. Locals are accused of forcing the farmers to keep their fields barren. Although the government has introduced a policy to compensate the crops damaged by monkeys, the farmers do not know. There is also a lot of trouble to get compensation for the crops made by monkeys.

Not only the farmer but also the Ward president is surprised by the monkey's behavior . Ward president Vinod Tamang said that every day he goes to different villages of the ward and returns after seeing the damage done by the monkeys. "Farmers keep crying and calling to say that they have to come, then they go and have tears in their eyes," he said, "The local government is promoting modern farming by connecting farmers with technology, but the food crops can be harvested by monkeys." "The local government cannot make a law to control monkeys, the people's cries come to us," he said, "we do not listen to them, we have no choice but to watch the farmers leave their fields barren." "Hul's howler monkeys have started entering the house," he said, "they beat and bite people and injure them, if this happens, the village will be destroyed."

 

Kedar

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