UP govt to put in solar-powered fencing round farms to avoid wasting crops from stray animals
4 min readExpress News Service
Lucknow: The menace of stray cattle, which was a primary ballot plank in 2022 meeting elections, nonetheless persists to hang-out the farmers in Uttar Pradesh. After making not so profitable makes an attempt to deal with the problem and Lok Sabha elections not far away, now the Uttar Pradesh authorities is considering to resort to solar-powered fencing round farms to thrust back the stray animals. Similarly, with an intent to curb the rising incidents of man-animal conflicts in buffer zones round tiger reserves, the UP forest division is planning to put in photo voltaic powered fence alongside the outer boundary of the buffer zone.
The proposed transfer to fence the agricultural fields is believed to be cost-effective and can have electrical fencing passing sufficient present to maintain the stray cattle away from fields with no hurt to them, mentioned a senior official. The farmers could be supplied with the tools at subsidised charges.
As per the highly-placed sources, the state authorities is planning to offer about 50 per cent funding for cluster-based fencing, whereas the remaining can be borne by farmers. The proposal appears to be useful in saving the standing crops from the stray cattle as different instruments together with barbed and electrical wires are banned since incidents of damage to animals have been reported.
The photo voltaic powered fencing can have gentle energy of 10-12 watt. “With the ban on other alternatives, solar-charged fencing in other states like Rajasthan has been implemented successfully. In Uttar Pradesh, the option of community fencing or cluster-based fencing, is under consideration. This will require the farmers to come together to instal solar-charged fencing,” mentioned Additional Chief Secretary (Agriculture) Devesh Chaturvedi. It is especially the fruit, vegetable and pulse crops which are destroyed by the stray animals and subsequently the concept is to make sure that a gaggle of farmers come collectively to create bigger clusters to scale back the fencing value, one other division official mentioned.
On the opposite, to make use of the identical technique to hold the wild animals away from straying into villages bordering the buffer zone of tiger reserves, trials will start by fencing the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) buffer zone. “Spots that have reported a number of incidents of man-animal conflict are being identified with the help of locals. These places shall be fenced first, and a review of the effort will be done in coming months,” mentioned a senior forest division official.
As per the forest officers, the photo voltaic fence of applicable top will ship a ‘very light shock’ to the animal attempting to cross over thus holding them away from getting into the human fiefdom.
The fencing will first be completed at spots, the place instances of untamed animals attacking man and livestock are widespread. After DTR in Pilibhit, the subsequent fencing will happen at Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS), Bahraich.
Lucknow: The menace of stray cattle, which was a primary ballot plank in 2022 meeting elections, nonetheless persists to hang-out the farmers in Uttar Pradesh. After making not so profitable makes an attempt to deal with the problem and Lok Sabha elections not far away, now the Uttar Pradesh authorities is considering to resort to solar-powered fencing round farms to thrust back the stray animals. Similarly, with an intent to curb the rising incidents of man-animal conflicts in buffer zones round tiger reserves, the UP forest division is planning to put in photo voltaic powered fence alongside the outer boundary of the buffer zone.
The proposed transfer to fence the agricultural fields is believed to be cost-effective and can have electrical fencing passing sufficient present to maintain the stray cattle away from fields with no hurt to them, mentioned a senior official. The farmers could be supplied with the tools at subsidised charges.
As per the highly-placed sources, the state authorities is planning to offer about 50 per cent funding for cluster-based fencing, whereas the remaining can be borne by farmers. The proposal appears to be useful in saving the standing crops from the stray cattle as different instruments together with barbed and electrical wires are banned since incidents of damage to animals have been reported.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The photo voltaic powered fencing can have gentle energy of 10-12 watt. “With the ban on other alternatives, solar-charged fencing in other states like Rajasthan has been implemented successfully. In Uttar Pradesh, the option of community fencing or cluster-based fencing, is under consideration. This will require the farmers to come together to instal solar-charged fencing,” mentioned Additional Chief Secretary (Agriculture) Devesh Chaturvedi. It is especially the fruit, vegetable and pulse crops which are destroyed by the stray animals and subsequently the concept is to make sure that a gaggle of farmers come collectively to create bigger clusters to scale back the fencing value, one other division official mentioned.
On the opposite, to make use of the identical technique to hold the wild animals away from straying into villages bordering the buffer zone of tiger reserves, trials will start by fencing the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) buffer zone. “Spots that have reported a number of incidents of man-animal conflict are being identified with the help of locals. These places shall be fenced first, and a review of the effort will be done in coming months,” mentioned a senior forest division official.
As per the forest officers, the photo voltaic fence of applicable top will ship a ‘very light shock’ to the animal attempting to cross over thus holding them away from getting into the human fiefdom.
The fencing will first be completed at spots, the place instances of untamed animals attacking man and livestock are widespread. After DTR in Pilibhit, the subsequent fencing will happen at Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS), Bahraich.
