Peacock Repellant Technique for Crop Protection in the Agricultural Land

Crop damage is one of the core and perennial problems in agricultural field. Most of the researchers in both academic institutions/universities, government organizations and farmers were concentrating on finding optimized solutions to overcome crop damage occurring due to natural threats. Among many natural threats, crop damage is mainly induced by birds, particularly peacocks in the southern regions. Crops are also affected due to the seasonal variations and in different stages of crop growth. As the national bird of India is Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus), it must be protected in spite of it causes various threats to the farmland owners. Peacock damages crop in the cultivated farmlands by migrating from forest into semi-rural and residential areas after monkeys. The peacocks only damage crops in the fields, but the monkeys scare the humans by getting closer. A decade back, people (including farmers) were surprised and enjoyed seeing peacock in their place. Now farmers were frightened because it invades their farmlands by damaging their crops, thereby causing severe economic loss to the farmers. In northern region of Tamil Nadu, especially Erode and Coimbatore districts, nearly 65% of the people are directly or indirectly dependant on agricultural sector for economic survival. The paper focuses on helping the farmers to protect the crop damage from peacock. Mostly, in our surrounding, the crops are frequently damaged by peacocks. The farmers used to keep away the peacock from the farmland by making sounds by themselves. But that is ineffective in repelling peacock mainly in large fields. So, peacock repellent technique is proposed to solve the above problem. The paper unveils the importance of using interdisciplinary approach to develop an eco-friendly technique to reduce crop damage without affecting peacock.