MP raises issue of farmers' loss caused by wild boars in Parliament
Since the farmers having their cultivable lands within 25 km from the Western Ghats have to tackle natural calamities and wild animal invasion, their income is seriously impacted by the wild animals invading their ranches.
The farmers, who try to chase the animals back into the forest, are attacked by these animals, especially by wild boar herds. At least two wild boar attack incidents are reported in the district every month.
Even though the Tamil Nadu Government was promising the agriculturists of removing the wild boar from the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 as done by the Kerala Government, which enable the farmers to hunt down the crop-raiding wild boars, no step has been taken by the government in this direction till today.
Instead, the government announced that the trained forest department officials would shoot down the wild boars entering the fields situated 5 km away from the reserve forest boundary. And, this announcement is also yet to be translated into action even as the farmers have been left at the mercy of wild boars.
Hence, Mr. Robert Bruce raised this perennial problem in the Parliament in April last and again in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The MP said the agrarian district of Tirunelveli was suffering huge crop loss during every season not due to the nature's vagary but because of the crop-raiding wild boar herds that enter the ranches to cause extensive damage to the standing crops. While the loss caused by these invading wild animals is huge, the compensation given to the poor farmers is very little.
'The Narendra Modi-led Government, which promised to double the farmers' income by 2022, should at least increase the compensation for the crop damage caused by the wild animals, especially the wild boars. Moreover, the Union Government should remove the wild boar from Schedule III of Wildlife Protection Act 1972, so that either the State Governments or the farmers themselves can take on these destructive animals and save the crops,' Mr. Robert Bruce said.
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