The Minister of Agriculture in Kerala Prasad claimed on Saturday that the growing threat of wild stones of destroying crops could be more effectively solved if people were allowed to consume their meat.
However, Prasad, who spoke in the program organized by Panchayat Paalamel Village Panchayat in this coastal district, said that the current prize did not allow this.
“In my opinion, people should be allowed to eat the meat of wild canaries killed in agricultural fields,” he said, according to the PTI report.
“If people have permission to kill wild buds and eat their meat, this problem can be solved much faster. But the current law does not allow it,” he added.
The Minister also pointed out that the wild boar is not an endangered species.
Prasad’s notes came days after the Keral Assembly approved a bill on amendment of the Act on the Protection of Wild Animals of 1972, aimed at reducing the growing incidents of the animal conflict in the state.
Human and animal conflict growing problem in Kerala
The conflict of man and animal is one of the urgent problems that the government must solve. According to a message Kerala government: “Given a combination of factors such as abandoned agricultural land, massive garbage accumulation, behavior of participating species (municipalities) and their success in breeding, conflict creates species such as wild boar, hood, peacock, etc., which have so far been limited by forest edges.
These new habitats are areas far from the forest edges, and also notes the report.
Watching wild Kares in keral
AND message Hindu at the beginning of 2025 claimed that 243 Panchayats, including 54 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly in Kerala, saw that wild coats damage crops and destroy the livelihood of farmers. These areas spread to 11 districts.
The Rubber-Tapper, who spoke the publication, said, “People practically stopped cultivating Tapioca and pineapple and left large distribution of agricultural land without lower and overgrown.
The drain talked to the Minister of Forest Ak Sasendran, who laid the blame from the center by saying that this problem was deteriorating because of the unwillingness of the center to mark channels as pests.
“The shooters with Empanel with licensed weapons are on the bonus. Moreover, some Panchayats seemed to delay payments for killing boars ( £1000) and burying carcasses £1 500). Despite the seizures in the system, the government could remove an estimated 5,600 wild carries since 2022, ”he said.
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