Ha Tinh farmers set traps, dig holes to kill rats destroying spring rice

Carrying his "tools", from early morning, Mr. Vo Viet Hoa (Lien Nhat residential group, Thach Ha ward, Ha Tinh city) went to the field to "spread" nearly 200 crescent mousetraps along the banks of the fields on his family's nearly 3-hectare field.

Mr. Hoa said: “There are a lot of rats in the spring rice crop this year. Wherever I go, I see people expressing their worries and discussing all kinds of ways to kill rats. The rice is in the final stage of tillering and forming panicles, so the inside of the stem is young and sweet, so they are biting and destroying more. If the young panicles are eaten away at this time, the ability to recover is impossible, greatly affecting the yield at the end of the crop.”

Mr. Vo Viet Hoa (Lien Nhat residential group, Thach Ha ward, Ha Tinh city) sets traps to kill rats.

In the fields of Dong Mon ward (Ha Tinh city), farmers are also having to focus on killing rats continuously day and night.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hien (TDP Tien Tien, Dong Mon ward) said: "I am afraid of rats destroying my rice, so I have to go to the field every day. People here buy improved traps from Mr. Nguyen Tien Duong (the person who invented the crescent-shaped trap to catch rats - PV) which are very effective, some nights they can catch 7-10 rats".

Mouse traps are placed all over the fields.

It is known that this year's spring rice crop, rats caused damage in most communes and wards of Ha Tinh city and over 20 hectares of rice were severely damaged. The locality has instructed people to be proactive in controlling rats such as: setting traps, catching them manually, and maintaining stable water levels so that rats do not dare to go deep into the fields to damage them. In addition, local farmers were introduced to Mr. Nguyen Tien Duong's house (Tien Tien TDP, Dong Mon) to learn more about the behavior, habits, and food of rats and practice making improved rat traps for more effective prevention.

Rats gnawed and destroyed the middle of the field, many areas could not be restored.

For nearly a month now, Cam Xuyen district has also seen many rats biting and destroying rice, especially in areas near hills, villages, highlands, and dry areas. People have had to leave residue at the foot of the fields; find holes to catch and destroy nests on the banks, high hills, along the slopes of major roads near the fields; hang scarecrows... but rats are still rampant in all localities.

Having just used biological mouse traps on nearly 8 sao of his family's rice fields, Mr. Tran Tuan (My Am village, Cam Quan commune, Cam Xuyen) said: "In the past few years, there have been no big floods, so mice have reproduced a lot. Mice have been continuously biting and destroying rice from the time of sowing until the rice plants have formed ears. I have used many measures such as baiting and setting traps, but the effect is not significant. As a last resort, I had to add thick nylon to build a 2-layer fence around the edge of the rice field to prevent mice from entering and biting and destroying."

Many people have had to stretch out double layers of plastic to prevent rats from running into the fields and destroying the rice.

Not only in the plains, in mountainous districts such as Vu Quang, Huong Son, Huong Khe, the situation of rats destroying rice also occurs.

Mr. Phan Van Tuan (village 3, Ha Linh commune, Huong Khe) said: “This season, there are more rats biting and destroying, especially in the middle of the fields. In addition, this is also the time when rats reproduce strongly, increasing rapidly in number. People here have to visit the fields every day to put out bait and set traps, not daring to be negligent.”

Farmers in Ha Tinh City learn how to trap mice from Mr. Nguyen Tien Duong (Tien Tien TDP, Dong Mon).

According to information from the provincial Department of Crop Production and Livestock, currently, rats are damaging rice grown directly in most localities in the province with an area of ​​hundreds of hectares, especially in areas near hills, near villages, highlands, and dry areas with an average rate of 3-5%, some places are 10-15%, and some places are 20%. At this time, rice fields have begun to enter the earing stage, becoming an attractive food source for this animal. In addition, this is also the breeding time of rats, these rodents will increase rapidly in number and cause widespread damage. In areas where rats have bitten a lot, the rice plants cannot recover, which can greatly affect the yield at the end of the season.

To limit the damage caused by rats in the fields, it is necessary to apply a combination of measures, following some basic principles such as early implementation, regular implementation, continuous implementation and large-scale implementation. In addition to digging holes to catch rats or using traps and baits, people should use some types of anticoagulant rat poison that are less toxic to humans, pets and the environment.

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