Dehradun, May 1 -- Monkeys and wild boars account for nearly 60% of crop damage caused by wild animals in Uttarakhand, the State Migration Prevention Commission has said in its latest report, highlighting the growing impact of human-wildlife conflict on rural livelihoods and migration.

The Uttarakhand government constituted the Rural Development and Migration Prevention Commission in August 2017 to examine all aspects of the problem, evolve a vision for the focused development of the state's rural areas, and submit recommendations on how to curb migration. The commission submitted its first state-wide report on migration in 2018 and has released 26 such reports so far.

The recent report, titled "Suggestions for protecting crops from wil...