keri more than 100 villagers of nanora along with surrounding villages assembled on tuesday at sateri purumar temple hall to voice their concerns over increasing incidents of crop damages by wildlife and failure of government authorities to grant justice to their problems nanora a hamlet of latambarcem in bicholim was once densely forested with nano trees today horticulturists and agriculturists are facing a major threat due to increasing incidents of damages by wild animals narayan phadke a horticulturist from nanora said my horticulture plantation has 40 coconut trees but the destruction of tender coconuts by monkeys have not given me even a yield of 35 coconuts this year twentyfive coconut saplings planted by my son were uprooted by wild boars baban rane deputy sarpanch of latambarcem village said government should take an initiative to constitute a team to take speedy steps for rescuing wild animals and curtailing their threats to crops at the earliest bicholim zonal agricultural officer anant hoble said within seven days affected farmers have to inform our office by providing necessary photographic evidences and documents pertaining to ownership of land we are entitled to pay an amount not more than 15000 per person he further said monoculture plantation should be discouraged and indigenous species of fruitbearing trees should be planted grasslands should be protected along with the ponds for water availability bicholim mla naresh sawal said i am aware about the problems faced by the farmers and horticulturists and will request the chief minister to take steps to solving the issue mencurem zilla panchayat member shilpa naik has planned to take a representation of affected farmers to environment and forests minister alina saldanha for a discussion and a solution on january 22