101.   Police deployed along the road hours before the clash took place, local farmers said, cutting off access to the area.

102.   So it is startling to hear what farmers are saying these days.

103.   Some farmers said they were sleeping in the fields, and some were irrigating them.

104.   Some farmers said losses from drought in previous years have made them barely able to hold on to their businesses now.

105.   Some farmers say it significantly reduces hail, thus preventing damage to valuable wheat and corn fields.

106.   Some farmers said they knew squatters would be occupying their farms.

107.   Some farmers say the assaults are an effort to push them off that land.

108.   Some farmers said it sounded odd coming from a man who has helped run the country for the last seven years.

109.   Some farmers say certain government environmental actions border on the ridiculous.

110.   Still, many farmers in Mramba say they are willing to give the sanctuary a chance, despite their long-running war with wildlife.