Control of rodent pests in rice cultivation
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2017-01-01
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Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
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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.
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