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Domoguen: Managing and controlling rats as agricultural pests

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THERE are field rats that taste like chicken. There are rats that fly, like the Palawan flying squirrel. I am not joking, neither am I nuts for saying that some rats taste like chicken. I tasted barbecued rats myself in the early 70’s, at the height of the national shortage of rice during the Martial Law years. That time, rice was rationed and it also came in the form of a rice-corn mix.

THERE are field rats that taste like chicken. There are rats that fly, like the Palawan flying squirrel. I am not joking, neither am I nuts for saying that some rats taste like chicken. I tasted barbecued rats myself in the early 70’s, at the height of the national shortage of rice during the Martial Law years. That time, rice was rationed and it also came in the form of a rice-corn mix.

Those days came back to mind while I was participating in a field lecture on the pest and diseases of rice in Tabuk City last month. During those Martial Law days, we lived in the mines and the rationed rice-corn mix was not enough for a large family of five boys and two girls plus our parents. So my father and three of his grown-up boys went to Aluling, in Cervantes Ilocos Sur to get rice.

We stayed three days in the farm and worked clearing the irrigation canal, weeding the fields, and drying and pounding rice. The old man who owned the rice fields did not accept cash as payment for the rice supply we needed.

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