Tag Archives: rats

Ensuring food security amidst the increasing population requires a pest surveillance system for staple food. Regularly collected pest surveillance data...

In the first such study in Sri Lanka, we identified the main rodent and shrew species and the extent of post-harvest damage caused in rice storage facilities...

Most small rodent populations in the world have fascinating population dynamics. In the light of vast research and debate over almost a century, we here...

By adapting new rodent pest management strategies, Cambodian farmers are now able to defend their rice fields from their long-time adversary. ...

There was simply no turning back—literally—for the rodent management team from the International Rice Research Institute as the group headed to the...

A famine broke out in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram in 1958-59. It reportedly took more than 10,000 lives and caused severe sociopolitical...

“Nature has sent the rats to our homesteads by thousands, and farmers are being eaten off the face of the earth by them.” This quote from H.C. Bartley...