Rat Boom Endangers Supplies in India -- Flowering Prompts Rodents to Multiply
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › April 21, 2008
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GAUHATI, India - A food shortage has hit a remote Indian state after an army of rats began devouring rice crops, triggering a famine scare, officials said Friday.
The northeastern state of Mizoram had a devastating famine in 1959 when a rare flourishing of bamboo flowers - a favorite food of the rodents - drove up their numbers.See the full content of this document
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Rat Boom Endangers Supplies in India -- Flowering Prompts Rodents to Multiply
The phenomenon occurs about every 50 years and has hit the state again....
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