Elephants destroy crops

Elephants destroy crops

BANDAR LAMPUNG, Lampung: Elephants coming down from the Bukit
Barisan National Park have been destroying the substantial food
crops in West Lampung for the past three months.

A number of village chiefs told Antara over the weekend that
dozens of the beasts destroyed hectares of coffee and rice crops.

Chief of the Negara Ratu village Ikhwan Z said that the
elephants came down to the villages late in the afternoon and
destroyed the crops throughout the evening.

He said that the rice crops in the fields located near the
affected villages could not be harvested, while the coffee had to
be collected before it was ripe.(par)