RAT MENACE CONTROL FOR SAFE EXECUTION OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENT IN CROP PLANTS

Rodents, as one of the major important vertebrate pests are directly related to production, storage and processing of the agricultural crops. Unlike the insects and fungi, which infest the storage, rodents plunder places whatever the temperature or moisture content of the grain or air. Carrying in vitro experiments on crop plants in their presence is a challenging task and protecting the experiment from rats required methods for their control. Various methods: rat trap, poison, trubble gum, ultrasonic vibrator etc. failed in front of them. Finally a physical protection became successful in curbing the rat menace for pilot crop plant production in laboratory.