In tourism and conservation, all animals are considered a treasure trove, which bring foreign currency into a country from domestic and foreign tourists.
However, on the other side of the fence, some deem the animals a menace, which they have to deal with in the nick of time to save their hard-earned toil from attacks.
Recently, at the Harvest Money Expo, a farmer expressed anger and concern about monkeys attacking his maize farm.
He shared his painful narrative during a workshop training on pasture and silage making.
His story goes: “I planted maize as pasture from which I would make silage, but as soon as the maize cob forms, the monkeys attack the garden and eat the cobs,” he said.
Harvest Money Expo is Vision Group’s successful agricultural show, whose gates opened at Namboole Stadium from February 14th to 16th. The expo is a three-day event, where visitors part with sh 10, 000 at the entrance. For those who wished to attend the training sessions, they parted with an extra sh 10, 000.
Robert Kakungulu, a maize farmer, who also suffered from monkey attacks shared some golden nuggets.
He said, “I also had a problem with monkeys, but you go and plant lemon eucalyptus. Plant it and after one year, they will run away.”
Kakungulu added that lemon eucalyptus is even cheap as one seedling costs sh 500 at nurseries in Banda, along Jinja-Kampala highway.
