author(s)
Mohan I Naik and Basavadarshan AV

abstract
Wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) has emerged as a serious vertebrate pest in India. Wild boar damages the sown seeds, developing pods and mature nuts of the groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) which is grown throughout the country and is an important food and cash crop of India. Though a lot of management measures are available to combat wild boar they are cumbersome and not economical. Hence, eco-friendly, cost-effective methods such as artificial barriers, border crops, and traditional methods were evaluated during 2017, 2018, and 2019 to know their efficacy in groundnut crop. The results revealed that the percent area crop damage ranged from 8.62 to 30.52 percent and it was peak during the harvesting stage (30.52%) followed by pod formation (26.12%) and sowing stages (20.93%). Among the different management measures the yield increased by 42.33, 18.04 and 14.86 percent over the control with the yield of 1022.27, 847.93 and 825.00 kg per ha when the crops were protected with nylon net, safflower as a border crop and used sarees spread around the crop border respectively, and served as the best treatments in controlling the wild boar menace whereas, in control the yield was 719.60 kg per ha.