Farmers in the surrounding area of protected region getting huge loss in crop yield and livestock by the wild animal, in case of crop they are getting loss through crop raiding and eating standing crop etc by the wild animal and in case of livestock farmers getting loss through livestock predation and livestock killed etc by the wild animal, here i want to know, how to analysis and collect data from the farmers of crop loss and livestock loss by the wild animal during?
Hello Deepak, these papers may address your query, hopefully. Kindly find below the attached files. Best
Ht. Decemson Thank You so much sir for sharing these paper, I will go through it, i hope these papers will great helpful for my research paper
I would say that the easiest way you could collect your data is to conduct a questionnaire with the farmers from the surroundings of the protected area and with other farmers from faaaar apart. Make sure to collect information about how many occurrences of livestock and crop loss these farmers have had during the past. Next, you could do some simple statistical analysis such as a T-test or ANOVA to test if the occurrences of livestock and crop loss is different between the two groups of farmers. Of course that you could make this a gradient instead of a categorical variable by collecting data from all farmers in a spatial gradient that gets farther apart from the protected area. In this approach, you could use a regression to correlate the number of occurrences of livestock and crop loss with the spatial distance from the protected area. If you choose to do this, maybe you could show that farmers that are closer to the protected area also report more occurrences of livestock and crop loss. Hope this idea may be helpful.
You would need a comparison between areas with different predator densities to know the effect
Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman Thank you so much for good suggestion, I will incorporate it
Hi again, Deepak! Answering your another question in my previous comment: I would include number of occurrences of livestock loss; number of occurrences of crop loss; the wild animals responsible for these losses; what the farmers think would be the best way to prevent losses by wild animals from the protected area; and if the occurrences of losses increased or decreased along the time that farmers live in the region. Later, you would have to calculate the distance from each farm to the protected area using a GIS software, so make sure to collect the coordinates of the farms that you will sample. I think that this way you will get a wide spectrum of what may be happening in the area. Later you may even talk to biologists to know if the animals responsible for livestock and crop losses could really be coming from the protected area or if they were be in the area regardless. There are several univariate statistical analysis that you could use to test this data that will vary depending on what question from the questionnaire you are testing, so maybe you will want to know more about T-test, ANOVA, regression and chi-squared analysis. I also strongly advise that you should talk to scientist from the specific field of your study to get more insights about what to ask the farmers.
Lucas Colares Thank so much for good suggestion.. i will incorporate all the suggestion in my study.
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