Key characteristics of pest rodents
- Basics for rodent management (i.e. timing, community effort
- Effectively managing rodents in:
- House and homestead
- Home-made bucket traps
- clean
- Storage and granaries
- Corrugated iron silo
- Raised + metal rings
- Hermetic storage bags
- Crop fields (e.g. maize, barley, grains, potatoes, etc.)
- Trapping
- Using repellent plants
- Synchronized cropping (crop-context dependent)
- Open strips of land
- Compacted/narrow soil/stone bunds
- Deep ploughing
- Attracting natural predators
- Controlled grazing (for grazing land purpose)
- Community Trap barrier system
Other general methods:
- Bio-rodenticide?