A cooperative organizes a rat extermination campaign with 10,000 traps.

Years ago, the Dong Lo Village Agricultural Services Company (Vien Dinh, Ung Hoa Commune, Hanoi) often provided poisoned bait to distribute to the people, but it was difficult to know whether the rats ate and died or became immune to the poison. Additionally, many times after the bait was set, it rained, limiting the effectiveness of the rat poison. Therefore, recently, the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Hanoi Department of Plant Protection and Crop Cultivation experimented with a half-moon trap model for rat control in Dong Lo (old) Commune over a period of 2 years, distributing a total of 10,000 traps. In addition to receiving the traps, the villagers were also trained in two sessions, personally taught by rat control expert Tran Quang Thieu, demonstrating how to set up and use the traps effectively. Mr. Do Van Hi - Director of the Dong Lo Village Agricultural Services Company stated that after the training session, the unit established 4 core rat ...