Farmers in Coimbatore district are demanding the Tamil Nadu government to take immediate measures to control crop damage caused by wild boars, in the wake of the recent visit by a panel from the State to Palakkad in Kerala to study the culling practice.
While crops damaged by wild elephants come to the attention of authorities easily, farmers struggle to get compensation for damage caused by wild boars, they say.
D. Prabhu, a farmer from Thadagam in the district, said there was a decrease in the cultivation of crops like bananas in places close to forests in fear of wild boars.
