Monkey farmers picket rural municipality office, volunteers to be mobilized to control them

लगानी न्यूज

३० जेष्ठ २०८३, शनिबार ०८:०५June 13, 2026

Khotang. Monkey farmers picketed the office of Jantedhunga Rural Municipality.

Farmers of Chisapani rural municipality picketed the office of Chisapani Rural Municipality on Friday, saying monkeys have destroyed their crops for food throughout the year.TAG_OPEN_div_30

The farmers who reached the rural municipality office in Chisapani bazaar carrying placards warned of phase-wise protest if the rural municipality did not address their demands.TAG_OPEN_div_28 They met with rural municipality chief Arunadevi Rai and deputy mayor Khem Bahadur Khadka and urged them to adopt measures to address the menace of monkeys.

Surya Rai, a local, who participated in the discussion program organized after the gheraoing of the rural municipality office, expressed anger saying that ‘either the people’s tent, or the monkey tent, the people should be displaced if they are to keep monkeys’.TAG_OPEN_div_26 “The monkeys are not in a position to live. Monkeys destroy the crops that are planted for food throughout the year,” he said. If we want to keep monkeys, we request the people to address their demands. It is not possible to live with monkeys and people. ”

Deputy Mayor Khadka, who participated in the discussion with the farmers suffering from monkeys, said that the rural municipality has allocated budget for the control of monkeys since last year.TAG_OPEN_div_24 “Monkeys have hurt many farmers. We have made arrangements to control it since last year,” he said, adding, “We don’t have the right to kill a monkey just because it hurts us.” We have allocated budget to mobilize volunteers to control it. So far, the farmers have not contacted them. ”

Farmers from all six wards of the rural municipality walked for hours to Chisapani to participate in the protest.TAG_OPEN_div_22 In a discussion held after the protest, the farmers demanded the right to kill the monkeys that destroy their crops and fruits.

Rai said that although the farmers have been demanding the right to kill monkeys that harass them, the existing law has not given them that right.TAG_OPEN_div_20 “The rural municipality is not in favour of killing farmers by saving monkeys. However, the right to kill monkeys is not mentioned in the laws of Nepal. We have been providing budget for this since last year. This program will also be included in the policies and programs to be formulated. ”

Monkey terror has spread in all the ten local levels of the district in recent period. Monkeys found in the forest have entered the village and started destroying the crops and fruits planted by the farmers.

Local farmers had staged a protest at Diktel Bazaar on March 30 after monkey menace erupted in Diktel Bazaar, the main commercial hub of the district.TAG_OPEN_div_16 The farmers who staged a sit-in at the District Administration Office (DAO) in Khotang after protesting with homemade tools had assured that they would help the farmers by taking their demands to the concerned authorities.