Morning walkers from Kochi’s two coastal panchayats buy African snails to kill them en masse
The Hindu
Since putting up posters a week back, they are being flooded with calls from affected people as African snails infest crops besides posing health hazards.
An offer to buy the highly invasive African snails is not something one come across very often.
Nondescript posters, complete with the contact numbers, making exactly such an offer are turning heads in the coastal panchayats of Nayarambalam and Njarakkal.
The rather novel initiative is the brainchild of ‘Sunrise,’ a combine of morning walkers. Since putting up the posters a week back, they are being flooded with calls from affected people as African snails infest crops besides posing health hazards.
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