PERNEM: Around 40 farmers from Korgao on Monday urged the Agriculture Department to intervene and help them with financial assistance/compensation for the loss of their crop damaged by the wild Gaurs.
For the last two months, the wild Gaurs having been destroying their cultivated crops, complained the farmers. The farmers said that due to the wild Gaurs they incurred loss of Rs 50 lakh.
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The farmers had cultivated local veggies, gerbera flowers, beans, sugarcane, chillies and others. However, for the last two months, the wild gaurs are entering into their fields and destroying their cultivation.
They even approached the Zonal Agriculture Office, Pernem and requested the authorities to come up with a solution. However, the authorities failed to solve the issue.
“Farmers are suffering because of these wild Gaurs are destroying the fields. First of all because of the lockdown, farmers are unable to move out and sell their produce and now this issue of wild Gaurs is uncontrollable,” a local farmer named Prabhudesai said.
“ We even approached the Agriculture Department however they failed to come up with solution,” he added.
