In order to safeguard the crops of the farmers of Jammu and Kashmir, the Wildlife Board in a significant development has asked its official to devise a mechanism wherein they can provide a relief to the farmers by compensating the losses levelled by the wild animals to their crops.
This is not merely an idea but a hope of the farmers who have been witnessing the losses for a long period.
The idea of being farmer friendly is a hope for the farmers particularly to those who are living nearby the forest areas wherein they often experience the losses incurred by the wild animals like wild boars, bears and monkeys.
Such initiatives for the farmers are being seen after a long time in which the farmers of Jammu and Kashmir are being recognised as valuable assets like other sectors.
The famers living in the remote areas used to worry about their crops and their hard work being erased because of the legally protected animal species. They were in no position to recover their losses due to an animal that they cannot control.
Importantly this initiative marks will ensure the traditional method of managing the human-animal conflicts.
The wards of those farmers living in the remote areas will now hope to take their wards to the next level of education because earlier many a youth used to quit their studies midway in order to keep a watch on the crops they were growing.
The initiative will provide financial progress and stability among the farmers who used to work round the year and end up paying their debts in the yielding season.
With this initiative, the Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife Board has sent a clear message that like other sectors, the government is equally concerned about the agriculture sector that has borne the brunt of losses in crops for decades.
