A rare flowering of wild bamboo plants has caused the rat population to explode in northeastern India, raising fears of famine as the rodents rampage through rice paddies, officials said Thursday.

This year was supposed to be a good year for selling bamboo rats to eat. Prices had been rising steadily as had their popularity as a delicacy when grilled. Then the coronavirus hit. "People nowadays ...

After leaving stable factory jobs in Hanoi, a couple in Nghe An built a thriving bamboo rat farm that now generates hundreds of millions of dong each year. After leaving stable factory jobs that ...

(Image from the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute) LOUDI, China (AFP) — Bamboo rat farmer Liu Yanqun was just starting to make plump returns from the rodents in his farm in ...