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Bamboo wand to check pachyderm menace - Agriculture varsity growing saplings to be planted in forests to end elephants’ food crisis
The Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) has come up with a magic wand — bamboo plants — to keep elephants at bay from human habitations.
The varsity has done tissue culture of a bamboo species which, it believes, could check the pachyderm menace in the state if planted in forests. Borrowed from the Northeast, the dandro calamus asper — a kind of soft plant belonging to the bamboo family — is liked by elephants who eat them with joy.
“As dandro calamus asper is soft, elephants consume it as a sumptuous food,” said Z.A. Hyder, the associate dean of BAU.
He said if dandro calamus asper is planted in forest areas, the elephants would not stray into the villages and create havoc as they would get enough food of their choice in their habitat itself.
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