Darbhanga Farmers Use Ancient, Zero-Cost Trick to Protect Crops from Wild Animals

• Farmers in Darbhanga's Mithilanchal region face challenges protecting Rabi crops (wheat, oilseeds, pulses) from wild boars and nilgai.
• They employ an ancestral, indigenous, and cost-free method: placing sacks on sticks in fields.
• The sacks resemble people, scaring wild animals away from a distance, preventing them from entering the fields.
• Even the sound of wind blowing the sacks further frightens animals, making them flee.
• This effective technique eliminates the need for chemicals, is environmentally friendly, and causes no harm to wildlife.

Why It Matters: Darbhanga farmers use a simple, cost-free ancestral method to protect crops from wild animals.