Rat Attack Against The Grain
P’doh Saw Htee Wah, secretary of the Karen National Union’s (KNU) Tenaseerim Township, told
Karen News.
“Villagers in the areas of Ma Noe Ro, Ta Ket, Pa Wat, Kay are facing a huge problem as rats attack their crops at night and destroyed in some cases their entire crop. Some villagers lost all crop in a few days. We are trying to collect data to gauge the total destruction of rice crops in the area.”
The affected villages are in the area of Tenasserim Township, east of Myeik Town.
P’doh Saw Htee Wah said information the KNU had collected showed that villagers crops destroyed by the rats affected four villages – as many as 136 households.