Write a newspaper article on crop damage and problems faced by farmers due to wildlife disturbances.
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Farmer groups have demanded that the recently announced Prime Minister Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) should cover the risks and crop losses inflicted by wild animals, such as elephants and wild boars, among others.
These wild animals, mainly in peripheral areas of national parks and wild life sanctuaries, increasingly pose a risk to farmers around those regions. Farmers are inflicted with crop losses and other damages when herds of such animals occasionally stray from their habitats and enter farm lands, destroying the fields and plantations.PMFBY has excluded crop loss caused by wildlife from the ambit of the insurance scheme. Besides, crops grazed or destroyed by domestic and/or wild animals, losses arising from perils such as war and kindred perils, nuclear risks, riots, malicious damage, theft, and act of enmity, are all categorised under ‘exclusions
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