ABSTRACT
Control of rodent pests in rice cultivation P. R. Brown, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Australia; B. Douangboupha, National Agricultural and Forestry Research Institute, Lao PDR; N. M. Htwe, International Rice Research Institute, Myanmar; J. Jacob, Julius Kühn Research Institute, Germany; L. Mulungu, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania; N. T. My Phung, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam; G. R. Singleton, International Rice Research Institute, The Philippines and University of Greenwich, UK; A. M. Stuart, International Rice Research Institute, The Philippines; and Sudarmaji, Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1 Introduction
2 Rodent impacts on rice
3 Rodent pests of rice and their biology
4 Rodent management methods
5 Case studies of management of rats in rice
6 Other vertebrate pests in rice
7 Future trends and conclusion
8 Where to look for further information
9 References
Rodents remain one of the main nuisances to mankind. For thousands of years they have been causing damage to crops, stored grain and infrastructure, and are reservoirs for devastating human diseases such as plague and typhus. The bones of rats and mice are found along with human bones from the mid-Pleistocene (1-2.5 million years ago). Rats and mice subsequently radiated throughout the world. Rodents continue to cause serious damage to staple food crops such as rice (John 2014), despite advances in methods of control and management techniques.
