World Scene: Spain
China Daily | Updated: 2007-01-16 07:37
Plague of voles destroys crops
Unusually warm winter has led to an explosion in the vole population in central Spain, one of the country's main agricultural regions.
Farmers say the rodents usually disappear in winter but this year that has not happened and some 500,000 hectares of cropland in the Castilla-Leon region are being steadily gnawed away.
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