One of the good place that must you visit if you come to North Sumatra is the 7000 square meters snakes captivity at Tuntungan, Namu Pencawir Road No. 174 Tuntungan Dua Village, District Pancur Batu, Deli Serdang. Actually not hard to find the location of snakes in captivity since 2005 founded Bio HETTS Lestari, a research and consulting institute in the field of agriculture and biological pesticides are. Location not far from the races Tuntungan, or approximately 30 minutes drive from Medan city.
"Do not be afraid. Snakes will not bother if they are not disturbed first, "said Darwis Harahap, Marketing Manager of HETTS Bio Lestari.
There are at least 600 of the snake's tail consists of six species, large and small stadia in the captive. The most is the type of snake fields, field’s batik snake, snakes field drum, and snakes condropiton fields. And three other species, wagleri, vasciatus and dipong.
"The plan, next year will add three more species. Is currently waiting for permission from the Ministry of Forestry in captivity," said Darwis.
According to the Darwis, a captive snake is actually a sub-division of research at the HETTS Bio Lestari, which focused on agriculture research and Bio Pesticides. However, this division eventually grew and became one focus of research in HETTS.
After through research and experiments, breeding snakes in this field has been cultivated into organic rat poison supplier that has the potential international market.
Elianor Sembiring, a researcher at HETTS, explains, organic rat poison snake rice obtained after rats were fed white. After that, the snake will produce protozoa called Saccrocytis Singaporeansis.
This protozoan later became one of the elements of organic rat poison to kill rats proved fields and ditches mouse.
In addition to the fields of snakes that have benefits for agriculture, some types of snakes, such as wagleri, vasciatus and also proved popular abroad, dipong.
The snakes that have interesting and unique color, according to Darwis, popular in the country of France, Frankfurt, Norway and Sweden.
In the future, according to Elianor, this exhibit area will developed into a snake institution. In addition, with the support of the government of North Sumatra, in this exhibit area will also be established gallery snake.
"Looking ahead, besides as a center of research, breeding area is also well become tourist sites," said Elianor.
Indeed, every time people hear the word snake, that comes to mind is a scary thing. Quite often, when people find a snake, they immediately appeared intent to kill the animals. "This is what we want to give referrals if you later this snake research institutes have been established. Hopefully, next year's standing. There'll be given a variety of education about snakes. For example, what we first do when finding a snake. Is directly away, or even kill him?" Elianor said.
Later, in the breeding area will also built a gallery that will display various types of snakes and relating to the world. "In European countries, the snake was often used as decoration. While, in our country not yet, because there is no awareness of this," said Elianor.
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