Set bait with vegetables to trap golden apple snails

The entire population sets traps for golden apple snails using vegetables The next morning, Mr. Nguyễn Huy Chí (Trung Hòa, Phú Nghĩa Commune, Hanoi City) held a net to catch the voracious golden apple snails that were flocking to the bait, which were handfuls of vegetables. Before long, the sack placed on the shore was filled with snails. Carrying the sack home, his younger child soaked them with a microbial preparation to fertilize the plants, which was rich in protein, while the older child sold them to bun snail restaurants at 2,000 VND/kg, a very high price. Mr. Chí's family planted 1.5 acres of rice, so before the spring rice crop, they had to lure golden apple snails with vegetables 5 to 7 times, collecting an average of 20 to 30 kg each time, totaling about 100 kg. "Using pesticides not only poisons the user but also the chemicals flow into the ditches and rivers, affecting the environment and harming public health," Mr. Chí told me. Mr. Nguyễn Trung Kiên, Director of the ...