Coimbatore: A single elephant has damaged over 1000 banana and coconut trees in a week in Mettupalayam, causing a great deal of worry amid farmers. Of late, farmers have been suffering heavy losses due to wild elephants from Nellimalai forest area foraging into farms around Mettupalayam for more than a month now.
Coimbatore: A single elephant has damaged over 1000 banana and coconut trees in a week in Mettupalayam, causing a great deal of worry amid farmers. Of late, farmers have been suffering heavy losses due to wild elephants from Nellimalai forest area foraging into farms around Mettupalayam for more than a month now.
On those lines, a lone elephant has been wreaking damage to farms in and around the villages of Kurumbur, Dasampalayam and Odanthurai. The tusker that ventures out at nights has been damaging banana, coconut and maize fields in the region.
This being the case, the elephant entered the fields of Rajan, Chinnaraj and Hakim in Dasampalayam last night and decimated over 500 banana trees and 10 coconut trees.
It is said that the pachyderm does not respond to the manoeuvres that personnel from the forest department employ to dispel it back into the woods.
The farmers in the area lament that the forest department has not been taking proper action. "The personnel from the forest department end up bursting a few firecrackers and when the tusker does not respond, the members of the crew say they do not have enough firepower," complained the farmers.
Farmers have called for immediate compensation for damaged crops and urged the forest department to initiate appropriate measures to avoid man-animal conflicts.
On those lines, a lone elephant has been wreaking damage to farms in and around the villages of Kurumbur, Dasampalayam and Odanthurai. The tusker that ventures out at nights has been damaging banana, coconut and maize fields in the region.
This being the case, the elephant entered the fields of Rajan, Chinnaraj and Hakim in Dasampalayam last night and decimated over 500 banana trees and 10 coconut trees.
It is said that the pachyderm does not respond to the manoeuvres that personnel from the forest department employ to dispel it back into the woods.
The farmers in the area lament that the forest department has not been taking proper action. "The personnel from the forest department end up bursting a few firecrackers and when the tusker does not respond, the members of the crew say they do not have enough firepower," complained the farmers.
Farmers have called for immediate compensation for damaged crops and urged the forest department to initiate appropriate measures to avoid man-animal conflicts.