Farmers’knowledge,attitudes,and practices with respect to rodent management in the upland and lowland farming systems of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

作     者：Peter R.BROWN Khamouane KHAMPHOUKEO 

作者机构：CSIRO Sustainable EcosystemsCanberraAustralian Capital TerritoryAustralia National Agricultural and Forestry Research InstituteVientianeLao PDR 

出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2007年第2卷第3期

页      面：165-173页

核心收录：

学科分类：120301[管理学-农业经济管理] 12[管理学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 

基　　金：the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research(SFS/2004/016) CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute 

主　　题：decision making farmers’beliefs pest rice rodent management upland crop 

摘      要：Rodents are a serious constraint to poor farmers in the upland and lowland farming systems of the Lao People’sDemocratic Republic and have been described as the pest they have least control over. To better understand theseproblems a baseline survey of farmers was conducted to assess their knowledge, attitudes, and practices with respectto rodent management. A structured survey was conducted in 12 villages across Luang Namtha, Luang Prabang,and Houaphan provinces. Twenty farmers from each village were interviewed (a total of 240 farmers). Farmersnoted that the main factor limiting production was pests (70%), with rats identified as the most important pest(98%). The mean yield loss was estimated at 19% (range 0–100%). Trapping and rodenticides were commonlyused by farmers. Farmers believed that it was important to control rats and believed that rats could only be controlledif farmers worked together. However, 65% of farmers conducted rodent control by themselves, and 92% offarmers believed that rodenticides were harmful to the environment. The main constraints identified were the highcost of some control methods and the need to get farmers to work together as a community.