Dehradun: A young IFS officer of the state has made a slight change in the traditional technique, relieving the people of a village of Champawat from the loss of farming due to elephants. We are talking about Kundan Kumar, a 2017 batch DFO posted in Haldwani Forest Division. The forest department and farmers especially adopt methods of anti-elephant wall, moat, bio fencing etc. to prevent elephants from going towards fields and villages. One of these methods is also of solar fencing.
According to this, such a wire fence is put around the fields, in which a current of 12 volts keeps running. In the same Gandakhali village of Champawat, Kundan Kumar thought of implementing this method. The problem was that its cost was very high. Kundan Kumar, who arrived here in November 2019, decided to use welted solar fencing instead. The method was that instead of wire fencing, it hung in the air, used steel wires. On which ran a current of 12 volts with solar power, and saved the fields of farmers from harm.
Elephants get entangled in these stars, which swing about three feet above the ground, then immediately come out and then go away. In traditional solar fencing, elephants damage the wire fence in an attempt to overcome it several times. Due to the difference of three feet between the ground and the stars, small animals easily cross. According to forest officers, this method has proved effective. Along with this, the problems of farmers have also been settled.
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