Monkeys are becoming a "massive problem" for farmers in Nevis, a small island in the Caribbean, according to the St Kitts and Nevis (WINN): Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture in Nevis, Eric Evelyn.
“The problem is that the population of monkeys is so huge that it’s gonna take some time, but we are beginning to see some of the problems being reduced.
"The monkeys devour everything, every vegetable you can think of, every fruit you can think about, and it’s not that they just devour, they go and they destroy as well, because a lot of the times they go to the fruit trees, they don’t just eat the fruits, they bite, they pick and they throw it on the ground. The same thing with the vegetables, sometimes they just pull up the vegetables and so they are very destructive creatures.”
Despite the challenges posed by monkeys, he added that many farmers were able to produce enough of their crops to sell. Some have gone as far as to install electric fences, the permanent secretary said.
source: antiguaobserver.com
