Agriculture is one sector are Indonesia because Indonesia is endowed land at dawn and easily cultivated and very tropical climate supports a variety of plants that can not grow anywhere else. Unfortunately, agriculture in Indonesia, which was once known as an agricultural country is in decline. The setback caused by many things, among others, is due to the decrease in agricultural land has been cleared for many settlements, bad weather and pest attackers.

One of the pests that commonly attack the rice fields is a rat. rodent that this one was not only damaging rice planted, but also can cause a variety of diseases to humans that can even cause death. Therefore, farmers are trying to find different ways to chase the mice because mice are a pest that is difficult to remove because it is very fast breeding mice and rats can easily adapt to environmental conditions. Therefore, farmers should be challenged to find ways that can effectively kill many rats at once in order to optimize the results of their fields is increasingly limited land.

Not long ago a group of farmers in the area of ​​Sleman, Yogyakarta tried a new way of pest control mice, the use of owl. The owl is a bird of prey mice were abundant in paddy field, farming corn, cassava and one contained in Sleman. However, the actual user pioneer farmers owl is Tlogoweru Village area, Demak, Central Java(Indonesia). Residents of the area have been for two years tersubut menangkarkan owls and use it to eradicate the rat. Predators of mice has proven reliable to be able to kill between 5- 8 rats each day. To be able to cover the whole of their land, farmers release about 400 owl Tyto Alba manifold every night. After two years, the frequent crop failures due to these mice increased results .

Aside from the owl, farmers can also perform a variety of other ways to repel mice tackling rat. These ways include the planting and harvesting are serempat the time difference is not more than 2 weeks. This is intended to avoid the proliferation of rats on an ongoing basis. Furthermore, farmers also have to do the cleaning on a regular basis to reduce the area of ​​agricultural areas where the breeding of mice. In addition, farmers are also expected to be able to do the fumigation, set a mousetrap TBS (Trap Barrier System) and LTBS (Linear Trap Barrier System). TBS is a trap that is applied in areas prone rat. TBS requires an area of ​󈑠 x 20 m in order to secure the planting of 15 acres arera. While the installation of fencing LTBS plastic/tarpaulin height of 60 cm. This tool is meant to limit the habitat of rats. All of these activities are expected to be done together in order to maximize the results of how to repel mice.