| Autor: |
Kasim, Assan, Kumar, K. Senthil, Prathaban, S., Thilakar, P. |
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Intas Polivet; Jul-Dec2021, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p267-271, 5p |
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The present study was undertaken with 120 respondents selected purposely, from Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, in the forest buffer zones to determine consequences of human-avian conflict (HAC) and to identify prevailing traditional and scientific practices to manage HAC situations in the study area. The data were collected by using well-structured and pre tested interview schedule and statistical tools. Nearly one-half of the farmers possessed medium level of knowledge with regard to various HAC. Human-peafowl conflict (HPC) farmers had high knowledge of HAC. Among the traditional methods manual guarding (35.00%) was followed by most of the farmers. Among the traditional practices followed by farmers to mitigate HPC, manual guarding (35.00%) was found to be most effective, followed by noise making (14.17%) and scary crows (5.83%). Among the scientific practices alteration of crops (12.50%) was followed by most of the farmers. Alteration of crops (11.67%) and removal of available food resources (8.33%) were reported to be effective. Validation and dissemination of traditional practices followed by farmers for wider adoption, decreasing forest dependency, forest pressure and addressing the education and development would be helpful to reduce the problem further [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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