Forest department officials urged farmers not to set electrical traps

Officials of the Forest Department here have roped in reputed shooter Nawab Safath Ali Khan for culling wild boars that have been raiding fields and damaging crops in Jainath, Bhela, Thamsi, Thalamadugu, Mavala and Adilabad areas for some time now. In the two days since he arrived for the culling, he killed 26 boars, according to a press release from the department on Saturday.

According to the statement, the shooter culled boars in Landa Sanghvi, Arthi, Mukthapur, and Jainath villages on Friday and Saturday. Standing crops of groundnut, red gram and sorghum were being been damaged by sounders of the boars in several of mandals of the district, the department said.Meanwhile, the department officials urged farmers not to set electrical traps either for preventing wild boars from damaging the crops or hunting the wild animals. They advised that the farmers report about any wild boar damages to their crops to the department through the local sarpanch for taking further action. Adilabad District Forest Officer Dr B Prabhakar told Telangana Today that Shafath Ali Khan’s services would be used until some measure of control is gained over the wild boar populations destroying crops.