Turkish farmers in Çukurca keep a wild boar watch on the tree

Published Aug 2, 2022

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Farmers in the Çukurca district of Hakkari, located on the Iraqi border, are taking steps to protect their rice and sesame fields from wild boar damage. These measures include scaring the animals away with strips drawn around the fields and building wooden observation posts in trees to keep watch over the fields at night. The farmers, who operate these posts for about four months until the harvest, also use flashlights and hunting rifles to ward off the animals. They obtain necessary permissions for these activities and use them to protect their crops from other wildlife such as bears and snakes.

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In the Çukurca district of Hakkari, on the Iraqi border, farmers keep watch in the wooden observation areas they have built on the trees so that the wild boars do not damage the rice and sesame fields. Farmers, who are in distress due to the damage of wild boars on agricultural lands such as rice and sesame in the town center and villages, resort to various methods to protect their fields. Trying to make the animals afraid of the noise by drawing strips on the cultivated lands, the farmers alternately ensure the safety of the fields in the areas they make of wood on the trees. The farmers, who go to the observation areas at a height of about 10 meters from the ground, regardless of the danger, keep watch at the points that dominate the fields until the first light of the day. Farmers, who go around the fields with flashlights and phone lights, and try to keep the animals away from time to time by shooting in the air with a hunting rifle, try to protect their products with this ...

Source: Sondakika