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While investigating the affects of certain industrial chemicals impact on ovarian follicles it was discovered that a chemical compound 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide (VCD), in low doses, sped up the menopausal process causing infertility in mice. Teamed with the fact that rodents damage or eat 50% of pre-harvest rice crops an implementation of the nontoxic VCD to control rodents could drastically increase the rice harvest yield. Even if the affect only reduces the crop loss by 10% it would be enough rice to feed 380 million more people per year.

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