Farmers in Agra pool in Rs 1 crore to save their crops from stray cattle

Agra | Saturday | 19th January, 2019

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AGRA : Getting little support from the local administration to protect their crops from stray cattle farmers on the outskirts of the Taj city have decided to take the menace by its horns. “Stray cattle have already destroyed nearly 30% rabi crops — wheat, potato and mustard,” he says. Farmers across UP are facing the menace of stray cattle, which destroy their standing crops. According to villagers, fencing of one bigha land (0.25 hecatre) costs around Rs 4,000.“Stray animals have caused major damage to our crops. e have spent around Rs 1 crore collected through contributions from around 500 farmers,” Pradhan says..