Yesterday, a farmer in the village of Luowa was in a cornfield destroyed by wild boars. Beijing News reporter Wang Fei photographed
The day before yesterday, a pest in the trees in the village of Luowa. Beijing News reporter Wang Fei photographed
The relevant departments said they would provide technical support for insect control, and farmers who were damaged by wild boars would also be compensated
"It's been a really evil year." The day before yesterday, Ma Guozhen, a villager in Luowa Village, Taishitun Town, Miyun District, Beijing, pointed to dozens of acres of bare chestnut trees contracted by his family. At the home of Cai Xiuwen, a villager in the same village, most of the cornfield after the wild boar "patronized" was trampled.
This year, affected by insect pests, the chestnut and walnut trees in the entire village of Luowa were nibbled by insects, and the harvest was almost stopped. Wild boars in the mountains also came to harass, and many villagers' corn fields that were about to ripen were razed to the ground after many visits by wild boars.
The landscaping department of Taishitun Town replied yesterday that it will give technical support to fruit farmers in pest control, and the crops damaged by wild boars by villagers will also be compensated accordingly.
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Chestnut groves are nibbled into "baldness"
At present, it should be when the branches are full of chestnuts, but the morning before the Beijing News reporter in the chestnut forest of Zhao Chunwu' family, a villager in Luowa Village, saw that the whole tree was densely crawled with insects, and only the top of the tree had four or five fruits left, which was very maddening. According to rough statistics, there are five or six hundred insects on a chestnut tree alone. Because the leaves have been nibbled, standing in the forest, you can continuously hear the "popping, popping" sound of insects falling to the ground.
According to Zhao Chunwu, his family has more than 150 chestnut trees, and when the harvest is good, it can have about 20,000 yuan a year, but at present, these chestnut trees are almost all gnawed away. Zhao Chunwu's case is not an isolated case. In Luowa Village, the chestnut and walnut trees on the road are gnawed away, as if they have "passed the winter" in advance.
Villager Ma Guozhen's family is a large household contracting chestnut trees in the village, and there are 3,000 adult trees that can harvest fruit alone, which can harvest about 40,000 yuan a year. This year, pesticides have been applied twice to control insect pests, but the chestnut trees have not been saved.
On the top of the hill contracted by Ma Guozhen's family, you can clearly see the bare chestnut trees. "The one on the back is even more serious than this, it's all gnawed into a bald, and the medicine is useless, and it can't be killed." She said the last time it was infested was in the '80s. What worries her even more is that this year's insects will be nibbled away, and the harvest of chestnut trees next year will also be affected.
According to a number of villagers, there are about 6,000 chestnut trees and about 1,000 walnut trees in Luowa Village, and none of them have been spared. Hao Hongwu, the village secretary of Luowa Village, said that not only in Luowa Village, but also in several nearby villages. ”
【Response】
The technician has visited the site
Entomologist Zhang Weiwei told the Beijing News reporter that the chestnut trees in Luowa Village have a variety of insects such as yellow thorn moth larvae, blue-eyed moth larvae and spring inchworm, which mostly feed on forest leaves. The reporter found that these insects not only nibbled on cash crops, but also acacias, mulberry trees, elms, and tsubaki trees were also being widely violated.
The relevant person in charge of the landscaping department of Taishitun Town said that fruit trees belong to farmers' own cash crops, the right to produce and operate management belongs to individuals, and the situation of insect pest damage to fruit trees belongs to the scope of management of the producers and operators themselves, and should be solved by individuals. If technical support is required, the forestry department can coordinate with the district technicians to provide technical support.
In response to this pest, the government of Taishitun Town, where Luowa Village is located, has contacted the technical personnel of the District Landscaping Bureau and the Agricultural Planting Service Center to the scene to view and take samples, and will make technical guidance and support for the next step of prevention and control. At the same time, the non-cash crop parts that suffer from pests will also be handled by the relevant departments in accordance with work procedures.
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The cornfields were flattened by wild boars
In addition to the various insects that caught the villagers off guard, this year's Luowa Village also welcomed a new group of "guests" - wild boars. Although many villagers have not met with them, they have been troubled by them.
In July, Cai Xiuwen's family's land was in a ravine in the southwest corner of the village committee, and in July, she first noticed that most of her half-acre cornfield had been trampled. "There are pig's trotter prints all over the floor."
In order to drive away the wild boars, her family bought firecrackers to put in the field at night, but to no avail, half an acre of cornfield was flattened out. Some villagers tried to put a trap around the corn field, hoping to prevent the wild boar from "invading", but it also had no effect.
In mid-July, the villager Zhao Qing's seven-point cornfield also suffered the same situation. "The mountains in front of me used to be bald, and I've never heard of wild boars in the village." Zhao Qing's farmland is at the foot of the mountain, on August 23, the reporter saw a large piece of corn in zhao Qing's family field was flattened, the ripe corn cob was chewed unevenly, and some grains fell directly to the ground. There are many hoof prints of wild boars in the field, and mud pits left by wild boars rolling in the ground.
Villager Zhao Chunhai went to the field on the afternoon of August 22 to pick pumpkins, when the corn was only flattened by a small piece. On the morning of the 23rd, the wild boar "expanded" on the basis of the original into a large piece.
According to villagers, wild boars generally appear at night, and unlike badgers, wild boars flatten large corn fields every time they visit. Because it was to protect the animal, the villagers did not harm it, but the frequent visits of wild boars also made them worry about whether their safety would be violated.
The injured farmers were compensated according to the policy
Hao Hongwu, secretary of the village branch of Luowa Village, said that in recent years, many places in the village have been infested by wild boars, and the problem has become more and more serious, and it has been reported to the forestry department.
In this regard, the landscaping department of Taishitun Town responded that due to the relatively good ecological environmental protection in recent years, wild animals such as wild boars have appeared. Wild boars are grade II protected animals in Beijing.
According to reports, the Taishitun town government has arranged the deployment work on August 18, requiring all villages to implement the work of destroying wild boar crops as soon as possible, and the village leaders and damaged households will report the damage to the town government in a timely manner, and after the town government investigates and verifies, the damage will be reported to the district landscaping bureau and enjoy state compensation according to the policy.
The Beijing News reporter inquired that the "Measures for Compensation for Losses Caused by Terrestrial Wild Animals Under Key Protection in Beijing" stipulates that crops and poultry livestock that cause losses caused by wild boars, wolves, badgers, badgers, ocelots, weasels, etc. can apply for government compensation, and the compensation ratio is 60% to 80%.
■ Extension
Four "lines of defense" ease the dispute between wild boars and villagers
In recent years, the ecological environment in Beijing's mountainous areas has improved and wild animals have increased. According to a staff member surnamed Sun of the Management Station of Beijing Wildlife Conservation And Nature Reserve, around 2000, the number of wild boars was relatively rare and was rated as a first-class protected animal in Beijing. Later, due to rapid reproduction and sparse natural enemies, the population increased and was downgraded to a second-class protected animal in Beijing.
At the same time, the number of damage to crops by wild animals such as wild boars is also increasing. According to media reports, in 2014, 1,603 farming households were damaged in Yanqing alone, causing a total crop loss of about 280,000 kilograms.
According to the staff surnamed Sun, unlike other animals, wild boars have a larger damage to crops and more serious losses. Nowadays, the annual compensation cost to farmers in the city is generally between 2 million and 3 million. "Every year, there are also one or two incidents of wild boar injuries in the city, and we are responsible for the medical expenses and related compensation."
In order to maintain the ecological environment and protect the complete ecological chain, Li Li, director of the Panther Wildlife Conservation Station, said that the conflict between wild boars and villagers cannot be solved by hunting wild boars. As a result, conservation stations have been trying to find a scientific way in recent years.
Recently, when autumn corn is ripening and the season when wild boars descend the mountain on a large scale, the Panther Wildlife Conservation Station has been experimenting for several years in Cai Shu'an Village, at the junction of Beijing and Hebei. The team set up 4 lines of defense for the village, on the one hand, the discarded discs were hung on the trees on the edge of the village, and the wild boars were scared off by the reflection of light during the day; at night, the player was used to play the howl of wolves on the top of the hill on the edge of the village, and spread leopard and wolf dung to guard against wild boars. At the same time, the protection station also absorbed the experience of foreign defense wild boars, and according to the characteristics of wild boars hating mint, they planted mint around the farmland as a "barrier" for defense.
Li Li said that judging from the tests in recent years, the defensive effect of using these methods is very obvious, and the protection station will be gradually promoted in several nearby villages.
Written by/Beijing News reporter Konka