Monkeys make farmland barren, migration increasing
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Bhojpur. The trend of barren agricultural land in Bhojpur has increased every year after monkeys started harassing her.
Farmers have been forced to abandon farming due to the inability to save crops from monkeys, while some families have chosen to migrate in search of alternative employment and safe settlement. As the plight of monkeys has not subsided, the rural settlements are gradually becoming deserted.
According to local farmers, monkeys come in groups and attack the crops that are about to ripen.TAG_OPEN_div_32 It has become even more difficult to control it as it will return after some time even though it is shouting around the field. Some have created intimidating figures. Attempts have been made to wait for the fields by making bowls in the fields, but there has been no long-term solution.
TAG_OPEN_div_30 Ram Prasad Rai Rural Municipality-5 (erstwhile Ward No. The problem of monkeys is big in 8 and 90. According to local Jagat Bahadur Tamang, the village has become empty after 98 percent of the residents of the area have migrated to the village.
} “Earlier, the fields used to be bustling, now the doors of the houses are closed, weeds have grown in the courtyard,” he said. Most of the houses in Archale, Bhorleni, Damaichhap, Guranse Ranagaun, Thakle and Mohoriya are now dilapidated and vacant. The fields that once looked lush green have been left barren.
The fields and sides of the fields have started to be covered with bushes, and in some places the fields have started turning into forests. The disuse of productive land has had a direct impact on the local economy.
According to farmers, monkeys destroy crops such as maize, millet, buckwheat, potatoes and vegetables.TAG_OPEN_div_24 “The monkeys destroy the crops in an instant”, Tamang complained, adding, “We cannot wait for the whole day.” Many left farming because they could not save their hard-working crops. Some have had to leave the village. ”
The farmers complain that the monkey problem is equally serious in other local levels of the district.TAG_OPEN_div_22 Rural households, whose main source of income is agriculture, have been hit hard. Senior citizens and women who survived have been given additional responsibilities of farming after the young people left for work, but they too have been discouraged by the monkey menace.
According to local stakeholders, the problem is acute in the settlements near the forest area.TAG_OPEN_div_20 As human settlements dwindle, the remaining monkey settlements have become concentrated. According to the farmers, if the problem is not resolved in the long term, the villages will become empty and the arable land will be completely barren.
Locals say that effective policy formulation, scientific management, collective crop protection system, compensation system and development of alternative farming technology are necessary to control monkeys.TAG_OPEN_div_18 Likewise, the farmers have demanded that concrete programmes should be implemented by coordinating with the local level and the bodies concerned.
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