Rats being counted in China
NZPA Peking China is taking a census of farmland rats, which are eating up to 15 million tonnes of grain a year. “China Daily” said a national network of 10 stations would be set up this year to monitor and forecast rat numbers in the countryside. A task force established to study the problem has said the rodents are expected to plague - 23 million hectares (57 million acres) of cultivated land this year. This will be the fifth successive year that infestation has damaged more than 20 million hectares (50 million acres), exceeding one-fifth of the official estimate of China’s total arable land. The Agriculture Minister, He Kang, called on researchers to devise newways of checking the huge growth of a the rural, rat population, which , has been exacerbated by higher yields resulting from more intensive fanning. The newspaper said successful large-scale trials had been held last year of a slow-acting, so-dium-based rat poison, which was less dangerous to other creatures.
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Press, 8 May 1986, Page 24
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