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.

Sugar cane fields in Australia’s northern Queensland are overrun with rats, threatening one of the region’s most valuable crops.. The infestation follows a period of heavy rain which boosted ...

A million tons less cane would reduce Australia's annual refined sugar output by about 130,000 tons, or 3%. Most Australian sugar is exported. Global production of refined sugar is about 200 ...

They feed on roots and shoots, and sugar-cane where it is to be had. ANOTHER addition to the Zoo worthy of note is three young cane-rats (Aulacodus swinderianus) from West Africa.

Key stakeholders in the sugar industry have signed off on an agreement to better manage two native rat species in cane producing areas from Mackay to Mossman. The Bureau of Sugar Experiment ...