Can protect crops from wild animals in Chumanuvri

Farmers are worried after wild animals such as bear, monkey, deer, jharal, ghoral, naur etc. have destroyed crops in this area for a decade.

Jestha 24, 2082

Hariram Upreti

Can protect crops from wild animals in Chumanuvri

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Chewang Lama of Chumanuvri-4 Proc is puzzled by the problem of wild animals eating and damaging the maize. It is difficult for the local people to maintain that cultivation in Prok, which is cultivated only one season in a year.

"This is the problem every year, there are many bears, they come and eat all the crops," she said. Farmers have been making books and keeping cloths in the fields to protect the grain crops of wheat, barley, yam, corn, etc., which are cultivated only once a year. But she complained that the wild animals could not be tamed even after adopting the method.

Chhiring Lama of Chumanuvri-5 Bihi says that it has been difficult to save since planting crops.  "The crows give grief from the day the corn is planted, the deer, the deer, and the deer enter the field from the time it grows, and the monkey disturbs them when it ripens," she said. She said that some locals stay in the fields when the corn is ripe. ``We don't grow rice here, we grow potatoes, beans, and corn,'' Chiring said, ``Some years, we can bring in only two or four heads of corn. Bears can eat it all. When we can't bring in our crops, we have to buy and eat them.'' "In nine months, we have a farm, and wild animals have caused problems by eating it," he said. In Prok alone, 3.2 km of agricultural land was fenced. Locals complain that the bear has not stopped entering the bar even after putting up a fence .

In order to protect crops from wild animals, MCAP, Ward Office has allocated a budget and put wire fences on some agricultural lands. Locals say that the problem of wild animals entering the fence has not been stopped even if current is passed through the solar which gives a normal shock to the fence. "Even if a fence is installed, it will enter from below, from above, from above," he said, "again, the budget is not enough to put up all the fences, there is no fence in all the fences." Chumanuvri-1 Samdo area has the problem of wild animals attacking domesticated animals including chaunri who have reached the grazing area. 

Santosh Sherchan, the head of Manaslu Conservation Area MCAP, said that despite efforts to prevent human-wildlife conflict, it has not been reduced. "There have been complaints from the farmers that fences were installed in some areas of Proc, but now the fences did not work. We buried wooden poles and fenced them, and those poles also rotted after many years," he said.

humanitarian  And although there is a guideline to give relief for the damage caused to livestock, the relief is not available to the farmers for the compensation of food crops. "Though internally, if the damage to food crops could be relieved by managing the budget, the farmers would not be in trouble, no concrete decision has been taken on this," he said.

Can protect crops from wild animals in Chumanuvri

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