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Want a TV, radio set? Collect rat tails
Want a TV ? Or a radio set? But no money. Then start killing rats and collect their tails.
The prizes go with a nationwide campaign launched Tuesday to rid the people of the proliferating menace of rats, reports UNB.
Launching the two-week campaign, Agriculture Minister Major General Majid-ul Haq (Retd) identified rodents as "national enemy number one" and urged people to wage a war on them because they stood in the way of attaining self-sufficiency in food.
In Bangladesh, rats destroy up to 4,50,000 metric tons of grains in the fields and another 75,000 metric tons in storage and godowns every year. Besides, they also damage rods, embankments and household property and spread diseases.
The anti-rodent campaign, which usually lasts for two weeks, was first started in Mymensingh district as early as 1977 and it was made a national campaign in 1983.
Sources at the Agriculture Ministry said that a countrywide campaign last year yielded 300,000 rat tails.
Last year. Sheildi Mohammad Alamgir, a farmer from Bagerhat district, won a 17-Inch portable black-and-white television when he produced a record 4,552 rat tails. Like Alamgir, the modern-day pied piper, the officials of the Agricultural Extension Department at three districts Mymensingh, Tangail and Gopalganj — also received certificates of commendation for depositing a total of 87,114 tails, according to the Ministry sources.
There Is no exact figure for the country's rat population but officials said a pair of rats can produce 500 to 3.000 offsprings a year.
Earlier, the campaign was conducted with German assistance and there was provision for paying 50 paisa for each tail collected. But the practice of paying cash was put off because of many unscrupulous people claimed prizes depositing artificial rat tails made of plastics.
Armed with traps, cats and poison baits, the farmers catch rats sometime as big as 12 Inches long.
There Is a risk all the time using chemicals to kill rats." said Dr. Anwarul Islam of the Life Science Department of Jahangimagar University.
He said local farmers generally use zinc phosphate as poison baits to kill rats. But those have adverse effect on fish and other agricultural productions.
There. are another ways to contain rats and the scientist suggested that those could be killed both biologically and mechanically using traps.
Snakes, owls and others birds of prey are also the natural foe to the rats, he said.
"But rat killing was very important for a poor country lie ours with chronic food shortfall". Dr Islam added.
Bangladesh annually produces 19 million metric tons of rice and wheat, leaving a shortfall of up to two million tons. Besides, the food gap is further widened as a result of frequent visitation of calamities like floods, cyclones and droughts.