Dr. Amjad Pervez, PSO, DirectorDr. Amjad Pervez, PSO, Director

Syed Muzaffar Ahmed SSOSyed Muzaffar Ahmed SSO

DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF PARC DEVELOPED RODENT PESTS CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR URBAN AND AGRICULTURE STAKE-HOLDERS.

Vertebrate Pest Control InstituteSouthern Zone Agricultural Research Centre

Pakistan Agricultural Research CouncilKarachi University Campus, Karachi-75270

• Vertebrate pests/deteriogens are of great concern world wide and in

Pakistan too. Among these, rodents are the most important pests at the

gobal level. Rodents have three major impacts.  

• The first is the substantial damage they can cause to field and horticultural

crops, forest plantations, and vegetation of range lands.

• The second is the losses they cause post-harvest to stored food and feed

products.

• The third and often overlooked impact is on the health of small farmers and

urban communities, and hence, influences productivity out put of humans

and health-care costs. The loss of human health and lives cannot be

assigned any price tag. Serious attempts have not been made to evaluate

health risks in monetary terms. In poorer farming communities, if a rodent

zoonotic causes disability to a poor farmers for a month at a key time then

it may lead to no crop, a late crop, or reduced crop yield. Each can lad to

debt treadmill. Rodent are carriers of at least twenty severely debilitating

human diseases.

WHAT ARE RODENT PESTS ?

Major rodent pest Species:Urban Situation:

• House rat, Rattus rattus • Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus • House mouse, Mus musculus Agricultural area:

• Rice Rat, Bandicota bengalensis • Short-tailed mole rat, Nesokia indica • Indian gerbil, Tatera indica • Soft -furred field rat , Millardia meltada • Field mouse , Mus booduga

Pest CropMean

DamageRs. Million

Rats and mice Wheat 3.5% 1841.269

Rats and mice Rice 8.0% 20.27.681

Rats and mice Sugarcane 9.2% 140.604

Porcupine Forestry 20.0% 120.00

Porcupine Maize 0.4% 29.651

Porcupine Potatoes other vegetable

12.0% 231.259

Rats Groundnuts 3.0% 214.612

Rodents Food storage 3.0% 814.00

SUMMARY OF LOSSES TO VARIOUS CROPS DUE TO RODENT PESTS

Crop Damages

PARC / VPCI Developed Rat Baits

• Grain baits for rats & mice• Pellets for rats and mice• Wax coated baits for porcupine• Capsule baits for wild boar

Development of PARC Bait- Lab Studies

Baits offered TilleringMean SE

Flowering/Grain Formation Mean SE

MaturityMean SE

Mean Consump (gm /Station / day )±SE

Mean preference (%)

Brodifacoum with egg 20.45±4.85 43.69±5.91 12.75±1.58

a25.63±4.22 53.28

Bromadiolone with egg 8.00±1.10 22.61±9.97 5.00±0.22

b12.00±0.76

24.95

Zinc phosphidewith egg

4.90±0.80 1.22±0.38 1.80±0.99c2.65±0.72

5.51

Development of PARC Bait- Field Studies

Baits offered

No of active burrows Reduction of rodent

Pre. Treatment(n)

Post treatment(n )

Activity )%(

BrodifacoumWith egg 97 2 97.74

BromadioloneWith egg 75 5 93.33

Zinc phosphideWith egg 89 10 88.10

DATE LOCATIONNO. OF

PARTICIPANTS

06-04-2010 Shaheed Benzir Bhutto, Research Station (SBBRS), Sakrand 70

13-04-2010 National Sugar Crops Research Institute (NSCRI), Thatta 60

22-04-2010 Agriculture Office, Sujawal 70

05-05-2010 Town Hall, Chuhar Jamali, Thatta 80

13-05-2010Govt Boys High School Building Organized by Agha Khan Economic Planning Board for Shah Bundar

103

27-05-2010 Mirza Sugar Mills, Ltd, Lowarisharif Badin 13

11-06-2010 Mirza Sugar Mills, Ltd, Lowarisharif, Badin 24

12-06-2010 T.M.K Sugar Mills, Tando Mohammad Khan 08

19-06-2010Hussaniabad, Jati Organized by Agha Khan Economic Planning Board for Shah Bundar,

34

19-06-2010 Tarr Khowaja, Jati 20

22-06-2010 Deh, Dalel Dehro, Sakrand, Shaheed Benzirabad (Nawabad shah) 31

23-06-2010 Sanghar Sugar Mills, Sanghar 60

28-06-2010Agriculture Workshop Organized By PSST, Sindh Hotel, Indus, Hydereabad

60

14-09-2010VPCI/SARC Karachi for B.S student of Agriculture and Agric Business University

94

22-09-2010VPCI/SARC Karachi for M.S student of Dept of Zoology, University of Karachi

47

03-11-2010 Agriculture training institute, Thatta 57

23-11-2010 Mirza sugar Mills, Ltd lowari shairf Badin 25

08-12-2010 NSCRI, Experimental farm, Thatta 32

28-12-2010 Palejo farm, off Jhang Shah Road, Thatta 38

17-02-2011 NSCRI, Experimental farm, Thatta 180

Total 813

Action Speaks Louder

FARMERS AWARENESS THROUGH LITERATURE;

• To aware the stake holder’s i.e urban and rural clientele, following advisory booklets /leaflets were distributed among participants:-

• Rat control in Paddy crops (Urdu)• Rat damage to sugarcane crops and their control (Urdu)• Commercialization of products and customize services in

vertebrate Pest Management (English).• Rat of wheat crops and their control (Urdu)• Ready to use “PARC Rat baits” (Urdu)

Farmer’s training and field demonstration activities were reported by local reporters in national and local news papers, such as• Daily Juriat, Karachi• The News, Karachi• Daily express, Karachi • Daily Sindh, Hyderabad• Daily Faisalo, Hyderabad

Flash in print media

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