Agriculture experts have advised farmers to kill rats and destroy their habitats at their farms and godowns as a precautionary measure to avoid damage to food crops and possible spread of diseases.
Rats cause spread of over 60 diseases that can hurt not only human beings but also animals and birds, says a report issued by Punjab Government Agriculture Department media liaison unit on Friday.
Their presence in godowns risks mixing of their waste into food crops stored which is harmful to human health and decreases market value of food.
Rats also damage agriculture machinery at farms besides electrical wiring, clothes ceilings for tunnel farming, water courses and agriculture fields’ boundaries.
Agriculture spokesman said that a move should be launched in rural and urban areas to kill the rats to avoid damages they can cause to the food crops.
Their habitats at houses, offices, farms and godowns should be destroyed by filling their holes either by soil or by water.
Farmers can also keep cats at their farms and godowns or install special traps. They can also prepare tablets by mixing one part of Zinc Phosphide in three parts of wheat flour and small quantity of sweetener.
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Farmers will have to travel to Lahore to do the job.
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