2. Dr. Amjad Pervez, PSO, DirectorDr. Amjad Pervez, PSO, Director
Syed Muzaffar Ahmed SSOSyed Muzaffar Ahmed SSO
DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION
OF PARC DEVELOPED RODENT PESTS
CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR URBAN
AND AGRICULTURE STAKE-HOLDERS.
Vertebrate Pest Control Institute
Southern Zone Agricultural Research Centre
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Karachi University Campus, Karachi-75270

3. • Vertebrate pests/deteriogens are of great concern world wide and in
Pakistan too. Among these, rodents are the most important pests at the
gobal level. Rodents have three major impacts.
• The first is the substantial damage they can cause to field and horticultural
crops, forest plantations, and vegetation of range lands.
• The second is the losses they cause post-harvest to stored food and feed
products.
• The third and often overlooked impact is on the health of small farmers and
urban communities, and hence, influences productivity out put of humans
and health-care costs. The loss of human health and lives cannot be
assigned any price tag. Serious attempts have not been made to evaluate
health risks in monetary terms. In poorer farming communities, if a rodent
zoonotic causes disability to a poor farmers for a month at a key time then it
may lead to no crop, a late crop, or reduced crop yield. Each can lad to debt
treadmill. Rodent are carriers of at least twenty severely debilitating human
diseases.
WHAT ARE RODENT PESTS ?

4. Major rodent pest Species:
Urban Situation:
• House rat, Rattus rattus
• Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus
• House mouse, Mus musculus
Agricultural area:
• Rice Rat, Bandicota bengalensis
• Short-tailed mole rat, Nesokia indica
• Indian gerbil, Tatera indica
• Soft -furred field rat , Millardia meltada
• Field mouse , Mus booduga

5. Pest Crop
Mean
Damage
Rs. Million
Rats and mice Wheat 3.5% 1841.269
Rats and mice Rice 8.0% 20.27.681
Rats and mice Sugarcane 9.2% 140.604
Porcupine Forestry 20.0% 120.00
Porcupine Maize 0.4% 29.651
Porcupine
Potatoes other
vegetable
12.0% 231.259
Rats Groundnuts 3.0% 214.612
Rodents Food storage 3.0% 814.00
SUMMARY OF LOSSES TO VARIOUS CROPS DUE TO RODENT PESTS

6. Crop Damages

7. PARC / VPCI Developed Rat Baits
• Grain baits for rats & mice
• Pellets for rats and mice
• Wax coated baits for porcupine
• Capsule baits for wild boar

8. Development of PARC Bait- Lab Studies

10. Baits offered Tillering
Mean ±SE
Flowering/
Grain
Formation
Mean ±SE
Maturity
Mean ±SE
Mean Consump
(gm /Station /
day )±SE
Mean
preference
(%)
Brodifacoum
with egg 20.45±4.85 43.69±5.91 12.75±1.58
a
25.63±4.22 53.28
Bromadiolone
with egg 8.00±1.10 22.61±9.97 5.00±0.22
b
12.00±0.76 24.95
Zinc
phosphide
with egg
4.90±0.80 1.22±0.38 1.80±0.99
c
2.65±0.72 5.51
Development of PARC Bait- Field Studies

11. Baits offered
No of active burrows Reduction of
rodent
Pre. Treatment
)n(
Post treatment
)n(
Activity
) (%
Brodifacoum
With egg 97 2 .97 74
Bromadiolone
With egg 75 5 .93 33
Zinc phosphide
With egg 89 10 .88 10

15. DATE LOCATION
NO. OF
PARTICIPANTS
06-04-2010 Shaheed Benzir Bhutto, Research Station (SBBRS), Sakrand 70
13-04-2010 National Sugar Crops Research Institute (NSCRI), Thatta 60
22-04-2010 Agriculture Office, Sujawal 70
05-05-2010 Town Hall, Chuhar Jamali, Thatta 80
13-05-2010
Govt Boys High School Building Organized by Agha Khan Economic
Planning Board for Shah Bundar
103
27-05-2010 Mirza Sugar Mills, Ltd, Lowarisharif Badin 13
11-06-2010 Mirza Sugar Mills, Ltd, Lowarisharif, Badin 24
12-06-2010 T.M.K Sugar Mills, Tando Mohammad Khan 08
19-06-2010
Hussaniabad, Jati Organized by Agha Khan Economic Planning Board
for Shah Bundar,
34
19-06-2010 Tarr Khowaja, Jati 20
22-06-2010 Deh, Dalel Dehro, Sakrand, Shaheed Benzirabad (Nawabad shah) 31
23-06-2010 Sanghar Sugar Mills, Sanghar 60
28-06-2010
Agriculture Workshop Organized By PSST, Sindh Hotel, Indus,
Hydereabad
60
14-09-2010
VPCI/SARC Karachi for B.S student of Agriculture and Agric Business
University
94
22-09-2010
VPCI/SARC Karachi for M.S student of Dept of Zoology, University of
Karachi
47
03-11-2010 Agriculture training institute, Thatta 57
23-11-2010 Mirza sugar Mills, Ltd lowari shairf Badin 25
08-12-2010 NSCRI, Experimental farm, Thatta 32
28-12-2010 Palejo farm, off Jhang Shah Road, Thatta 38
17-02-2011 NSCRI, Experimental farm, Thatta 180
Total 813

16. Action Speaks Louder

19. FARMERS AWARENESS THROUGH LITERATURE;
• To aware the stake holder’s i.e urban and rural clientele,
following advisory booklets /leaflets were distributed
among participants:-
• Rat control in Paddy crops (Urdu)
• Rat damage to sugarcane crops and their control (Urdu)
• Commercialization of products and customize services in
vertebrate Pest Management (English).
• Rat of wheat crops and their control (Urdu)
• Ready to use “PARC Rat baits” (Urdu)

20. Farmer’s training and field demonstration activities
were reported by local reporters in national and
local news papers, such as
• Daily Juriat, Karachi
• The News, Karachi
• Daily express, Karachi
• Daily Sindh, Hyderabad
• Daily Faisalo, Hyderabad
Flash in print media

21. VPCI
SARC
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