A single pair of native rats can produce '460 offspring' a year. With their population exploding, they're causing havoc for sugar cane farmers, decimating valuable crops.
abc.net.au/news/rat-plague-north-queensland-sugar-cane-crop-destroyed/101586288Sugar cane farmers in the North Queensland town of Ingham have a rat race on their hands as native rodent populations explode and decimate valuable crops.Perfect breeding conditions have seen populations skyrocket into their millionsSome farmers are calling the damage throughout the Herbert region the worst they have ever seen.
"We're seeing significant damage," said Lawrence Di Bella, the manager of Herbert Cane Productivity Services. As the cane fields reduce, so do the profits that sugar cane farmers were set to make on what was going to be a bumper crop.
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