LITTLE PROTECTION: The trench dug by the Forest Department to protect farmers from wild animal attacks at Chembanode in Kozhikode. Forest Department sources say the trench was constructed on the basis of complaints raised by farmers in the area. ‘Warnings ignored’Locals say Forest Department officials paid no heed to their suggestions on digging the trench or warnings about poor soil texture. Instead of the trench, local farmers had urged the Forest Department to put up strong steel fences using dismantled railway tracks. The digging of the one-and-a-half-kilometre trench along the forest line is near complete, but it will be of no use without the construction of a retaining wall, say farmers.
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