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Rodent Control Program in Indonesia
Indonesia's 1st National Rice Week, coinciding with the 20th anniversary
of the foundation of the Research Institute for Rice in Sukamandi was
held in the first week of March 2002.
Rice Week was begun to -
- promote research in rice production and crop protection
- to assist policy makers in planning rice production
- crop protection and research,
- and to inform extension officers and farmers of techniques in
rice
production and crop protection.
It was therefore an opportunity to show the research achievements of the
ACIAR-funded project to control rats in rice crops.
The President of Indonesia, Megawati Sukarnoputri and the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Bungaran Saragih opened Rice Week in the presence of 2500 policy makers, researchers, university staff, students and farmers.
The rodent group of the Research Institute for Rice (RIR) presented
its work in a poster 'Technologies to control rice-field rats' at a scientific
workshop attended by representatives from all Indonesian provinces, RIR
and many universities. Extension staff and farmers took away approximately
500 smaller versions of the poster.
Rodent group staff also presented rodent control techniques developed
in the ACIAR project in an exhibition aimed to distribute knowledge on
rice crop protection.
The President of Indonesia, the Minister of Agriculture, AARD staff and many farmers attended a field day, where rodent group staff demonstrated the use of the trap barrier system (TBS) for rodent control. Officials and farmers were highly interested in the TBS technique. As a result the Chairman of the central board of the national farmers association (HKTI) ordered 1000 multiple capture traps for distribution to several Indonesian provinces.
The 2nd Conference on Rodent Biology and Management will be held in
Canberra in 2003.
Listen to KGRE during January and February
to hear Mirah Nuryati from ACIAR Jakarta talk about the problem of rats
and rodents and how they affect the rice crops of Indonesia.
| What does ACIAR do? |
ACIAR
makes a special contribution to development through sharing its
agricultural research expertise.
ACIAR mobilises Australia's research capacity to help solve agricultural
research problems of developing countries. The Centre allocates about
three-quarters of its research and development budget to promoting bilateral
development-related research collaboration between Australia and individual
developing countries. The remaining quarter provides Australia's contribution
to the institutes of the international agricultural research system.
The Centre itself does not carry out research, but brings together research
institutions in Australia and partner developing countries to work together
on problems of mutual interest and benefit, in fields in which Australia
has
comparative advantage. ACIAR projects are implemented through contractual
arrangements with such Australian organisations as State agricultural
departments, universities, CSIRO and the cooperative research centres.
The rural industry research and development corporation and private industry
may also be involved.
Look at just a few of the areas in which
ACIAR works, not only here in Indonesia but all over the world.
AS1/1998/054: Poverty alleviation
and food security
through improving the sweet potato-pig systems in
Indonesia and Vietnam.
CS2/1997/079: Integrated control of mango insect pests
using green ants as a key element.
(1999/005) Improved soil management on rainfed
vertisols in Nusa Tenggara.
(Project 9722) Remediation and management of degraded
earthen shrimp ponds in Indonesia and Australia.
(2000/062) Artisanal shark and ray fisheries in Eastern Indonesia:
their socio-economic and fisheries characteristics and
relationship to Australian resources.
ASEM/2001/036:Maximising the economic benefits to
Pacific Island Nations from management of migratory
tuna stocks.
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