irpachi one of the brothers to find an alternate source of income farmers started dairy farming but the wild animals didnt spare their cattle too in our village there have been 63 cattle kills in last threefour months say residents of murlithe government is making a mockery of compensation the word itself has turned into a cruel joke for the grieving farmers few months back a tiger killed two jersey cows of dhanraj bhad i had purchased them for rs1 lakh but i got a compensation of hardly rs50000 he saysin last one year seven cattle of ghorpad farmer rahul bhad have been killed by a tiger against their value ofrs35000 i only got a compensation of rs1520000 he says for farmers claiming a compensation for crop damage is as big a terror as that of a tiger they couldnt find a way to untangle the red tape out of the procedure dagarao awthale is one of the few who gave it a try when wild board destroyed my sorghum jowar crops three year back i gathered all the documents and completed the numerous formalities that went on for 67 months crops worth rs90000 were damaged and i got a compensation of rs7000 he saystiger movement is a constant around the farms of udham singh yadav in ghorpad who too has been facing constant crop damage since the last few years nobody wants to work in the farms the government should at least provide electricity in the night so that we can guard our fields he saysyadav says almost all the farmers are land owners like in rajasthan the forest department should have either built a compound around the forest or our farms 99 of the farmers here do not want to harm wildlife if the administration cannot do the compound wall it should acquire farms close to forest and provide sufficient compensation as mentioned by the high court at least farmers would be able to buy lands in safer areas says yadavstaring at their barren lands farmers have one question to ask if we enter forest land its treated as trespassing why is the government allowing wild animals to enter ours then