{"id":98087,"date":"2025-08-26T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:48:08","slug":"10000-snakes-to-be-released-to-protect-indonesias-west-java-rice-fields-from-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98087\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 snakes to be released to protect Indonesia&#8217;s West Java rice fields from rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Aug 25\u00a0(Bernama): Indonesian authorities in Indramayu Regency, West Java, are planning to release 10,000 non-venomous snakes into paddy fields to combat rat infestations that threaten rice crops.<\/p>\n<p>The snakes, locally known as \u2018koros\u2019 and \u2018lanang sapi\u2019, are harmless to humans and act as natural predators, reducing farmers\u2019 reliance on chemical pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>Indramayu Regent Lucky Hakim led the release of hundreds of snakes under the &#8220;Snakes: Farmers\u2019 Friends\u201d programme in Sindang subdistrict on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Snakes effectively reduce rats in the fields and protect harvests without harming the environment,\u201d he said,\u00a0according to a statement by Indramayu Information Department.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities also\u00a0provide guidance to farmers on handling the snakes.<\/p>\n<p>The rice-harvested area in Indramayu, one of West Java\u2019s largest rice-producing regions, covered 212,297 hectares last year.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers have welcomed the initiative after learning about its ecological benefits, particularly as rat-related crop losses remain a major challenge in the region. &#8211; Bernama<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAKARTA, Aug 25\u00a0(Bernama): Indonesian authorities in Indramayu Regency, West Java, are planning to release 10,000 non-venomous snakes into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3878,49,48,6110,57045,57047,57048,57046,66,3309,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-98087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-indonesia","12":"tag-indramayu","13":"tag-pest-control","14":"tag-rat","15":"tag-rice-farming","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-snake","18":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}