Rats are the second most important pest of rice in Indonesia. These pests should be paid special attention. Due to the loss of production due to pest rats is very high. Efforts to control these rats have been done by many farmers, ranging from physical, biological, sanitary, technical, mechanical and chemical. But it is acknowledged that, by way of control it is not optimal, so the expectation to suppress the rat population is very difficult.
This rat pest control will be done well if farmers learn the basic concept and control various ways of control into a program that suits the type of disturbing organisms and agricultural ecosystems in the place.
We can be defined as a means of control with some selected and harmonious control measures and economic, ecological and toxicological aspects so that pest populations are at an economically disadvantageous rate.
In general, mice live in paddy fields and surrounding areas, and rat breeding is very fast. If in theory, rats breed to 1270 tails per year from one pair of rats. this illustrates how rapidly the rat population in a year. The development of many rats influenced by environmental factors, especially the availability of food sources and the population of rats will meninglat associated with peaks in the generative period.
The activity of rats is usually very active at night and the daily activities are very organized ranging from finding food, drinking and looking for a partner. To avoid from unfavorable environments, rats make nests in moist areas, adjacent to water and food sources such as tree trunks, the sidelines of stones, embankments, railroads and small hills.
Farmers should be able to distinguish which so-called wet-rice mice and which house mice. In general, mice wrong in addition to doing activities in the fields, can also perform activities at home. While mice house only doing activities only at home only.
Here's how prevention you can do to prevent pests of mice on rice planting:
Doing land cleansing or environmental sanitation, lawn or grass cleansing that rats use for nesting.
By hunting or by killing rats directly (physically), by dismantling the holes of rat holes, then being bundled and killed (gropyokan) for example and entering the water into the nest or hole nest hole.
The planter simultaneously covers the lausite area, for example of 0-100 hectares. This is done to provide food for rats.
Utilizing commonly used mouse control methods, such as flooding of mouse nests, catching, sounds, crawls and other means.Biology / biological by utilizing natural enemies such as pythons, ularwelang, owl and other.
Install the nursery curtain at the time of sowing rice, where this way is done to protect the seedbed of pests of mice. Materials used from plastic sheets or used tin sheets, curtains in pairs around the seedbed with about 60 cm.