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With the maize harvest play nether mode successful Thoothukudi district, farmers raised concerns implicit chaotic boar attacks, aft 2 farmers, including a pistillate from Kailasapuram successful Pudur artifact of Vilathikulam taluk were injured.
There were repeated grievances from the farmers of taluks including Vilathikulam and Ettayapuram, citing the chaotic boar and cervid intrusions into the workplace lands.
On Wednesday, a pistillate identified arsenic Lakshmi, 62 from Kailasapuram was attacked by chaotic boar, portion she was astatine a banana plantation successful the village. “I was cutting fodder successful the field, erstwhile a chaotic boar attacked me,” she said. She sustained a wound wounded to her genu and was treated astatine Government Hospital successful Sattur.
She noted that officials from the wood section had visited her connected Thursday and advised the villagers to seizure the animals and merchandise them into the wood area. “Two days agone different husbandman named Moorthy from the aforesaid colony got attacked by chaotic boars astatine his maize field,” she said.
A.Varadharajan, president of Karisal Bhoomi Farmers’ Association said that farmers from these regions person been suffering owed to this menace for the past fewer years, arsenic chaotic boars person been continuously destroying crops and feeding connected harvested grains. He noted that aggregate complaints were made to the authorities to curb the attacks, but officials failed to respond adequately.
Speaking astir the incident, M. Ilayaraja, District Forest Officer, Thoothukudi said, that the wood section has conducted familial tests connected fewer animals reported to beryllium chaotic boars of bluish parts of Thoothukudi district, but each were recovered to beryllium feral pigs. He added that compensation cannot beryllium provided successful cases involving feral pigs.
“We are continuing to show the beingness of chaotic boars successful the bluish portion of the district. For now, villagers and section assemblage members person been instructed to cage the ferals and merchandise them into wood areas,” helium said.
However, Sivasubramaniyan, a husbandman from Ayanrajapatti disputed the claim, saying the animals were chaotic boars and not feral pigs. He said these animals nest on Vaippar stream banks during the time and raid the crops astatine night. With the maize harvest play underway, galore chaotic boars person moved towards maize fields, posing not lone a menace to crops but besides farmers, helium added.
