LUSAKA, March 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Stories of elephants invading people and destroying their crops have been the order of day in most rural parts of Zambia for years, but now they have found that chili good remedy for ending this, reported Times of Zambia Saturday.

    People in Central province are now adopting the chili cultivation as one of their cash crops, the newspaper reported.

    A community relations coordinator said they started to plant chili last September and found the chili growing is a an effective barrier to elephants as the beasts are scared of smell of the crop.

    The other way to keep them away is boiling the chili, adding a bit of cooking oil and soaking a rope in the solution for a day. The rope can then be hanged around the field to ensure elephants never cross the field.

    If the chili growing magic works, the crop would be planted around all the national parks as a way of caging the massive wild animals, said the report. Enditem