Gamharia : The hope of villagers for harvesting good crops this year were dashed as a herd of wild elephants trampled through the paddy field in villages of Rapocha and Burudih.
Rampaging herds of tuskers in the villages are forcing innocent tribal to spend sleepless nights.
In an area that boasts of a forest cover of 30 percent, the human-animal conflict is major concern of the people.
In past one week cases of elephant�s regularly damaging standing crops have shot up.
“I am in state of shock I had planted paddy on a patch of four acres of land this monsoon, and was expecting to harvest a good crop sometime around October-November, but a herd of elephants spoilled everything.
The herd has not only stomached the young plants, but also trampled the entire field,” said Kisku Soren, a resident of Bhilaipahadi panchayat.
