Golden Apple Snails (Pomacea) still a global issue in rice field. How to solve it. Book on Pamacea will be reviewed again by the authour. I just got his email asking me to contribute in next book. Thank you to foreign scientists, Consultant to Ministry of Agriculture Republic of FIJI.

(Original article  was in Bahasa Melayu, direct translation by computer)
According to the Head of the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Assoc. Dr. Ahmad Ismail, golden apple snails attack impact directly to farmers. It is so because farmers had to bear the burden of wages, pesticides, seeds, plowing the fields and manure for the implementation of the process of planting rice were destroyed. "The costs incurred, sometimes reaching 500 to 000 ringgit for a plots. "Government subsidies obtained is insufficient to bear the cost of damage from the attack of golden apple snails," he said. According to Dr. Ahmad, the cost of paddy current volatile depending on the season. "If it's rainy season, water management costs will increase as well as snails are so many attacks on the field," he said. Study after study was conducted by researchers from the Department of Biology, UPM Gondang to prevent the spread of the gold to the paddy fields and drainage systems around Peninsular Malaysia since the early 1990s.
Artikel Penuh: http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/Agrobiz/20121029/ag_01/Ancaman-gondang-emas#ixzz2N3mqCXj6
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