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JAMMU: Amid outrage implicit the monkey menace destroying crops, Jammu and Kashmir govt connected Tuesday informed the assembly it is not readying to motorboat a sterilisation thrust to curb the simian population, adjacent arsenic it conceded that the menace remains a large headache crossed Jammu region.The govt, however, said a scope of steps are being rolled retired to tackle the problem, from pushing farmers towards monkey-resistant crops specified arsenic turmeric, ginger, and lemongrass to promoting bound plantation of ladyfinger. Farmers are besides being encouraged to instal star fencing, usage monkey-deterrent devices and halt feeding the animals, the govt said.BJP’s Nagrota MLA Devyani Rana raised the contented successful the assembly, stating that monkeys are ravaging crops successful her constituency and posing a increasing menace to nationalist safety.
She pressed for sterilisation, relocation, compensation and superior preventive interventions.Rana said that harvest diversification whitethorn beryllium a dependable cultivation strategy, but farmers cannot beryllium expected to sorb modulation costs without organization backing.“International and home experiences suggest that sterilisation indispensable beryllium large-scale, continuous and professionally monitored to nutrient a measurable demographic impact.
Sporadic interventions output negligible results,” she added.Official figures amusement that astir 2,200 hectares of cultivation onshore successful Nagrota unsocial person been affected by monkey-related harvest damage, including effect orchards.BJP MLA from Udhampur West, Pawan Gupta, warned that nonaccomplishment to motorboat a monkey sterilisation programme would pb to a superior concern successful Jammu. “Thousands of kanals of onshore successful my constituency are lying vacant due to the fact that farmers are acrophobic to turn crops owed to monkeys. Even astatine my ain location successful Udhampur, 40 to 50 monkeys stitchery each evening,” Gupta said.“It is said animals slumber successful the evening, but these monkeys don’t. They should beryllium moved backmost towards wood areas,” helium said, adding that govt inaction would unit galore much farmers to wantonness agriculture.
