Prize contest held to combat rats

Prize contest held to combat rats

BENGKULU: An official with Lebong regency, Bengkulu province,
disclosed on Monday that the Lebong regency administration had
been running a competition for the last two months ago offering
local residents Rp 500 (US$0.05) for each rat they killed.

Dalhadi Umar, the regent of Lebong, said that the prize
competition had been organized after rats had damaged 700 out of
1,500 hectares of rice fields in the regency. So far, local
people had killed some 15,000 rats, said the regent. -- Antara