What preparatory work needs to be done before bamboo rat farming?

Why is it difficult to get a permit?

    First, bamboo rats, whether farmed or wild, fall under the category of terrestrial wildlife. According to China's Wildlife Protection Law, bamboo rats are also within the scope of the national "Three-Haves" protected animal list, and are not, as some websites and breeders claim, first-class, second-class, or third-class protected animals. But this is relative to national laws and regulations, and China has so many provinces with varying numbers of wild animals distributed across them, and animal populations and numbers, like people, are distributed densely or sparsely,
so each province and each district can also formulate its own levels and types of key protected animals, which are locally key protected animals. The intensity of wildlife protection differs from province to province, which affects the issue of wildlife permits. In addition, in each province's forestry bureaus, the department that specifically handles permits is the forestry administration section under the forestry bureau. The professional attitude of the staff and their different levels of understanding of relevant national policies, with some rigidly applying rules and some afraid of taking responsibility, preferring to seek no merit but only to avoid mistakes, also leads to permit problems and difficulties.
    Second, some farmers, being in remote rural areas and raising a small number in their own spare empty rooms, have no awareness of getting a permit at all. And they do not want to get one.
Those who want to get a permit, due to corruption among local government officials, find that as soon as word gets out that someone is raising bamboo rats, officials often use the excuse of inspecting work to come to the farmers and demand bamboo rats to eat, and the farmers, having favors to ask of them, can only swallow their anger and endure it. Moreover, according to the provisions of the Implementation Regulations on Wildlife Protection, this phenomenon is especially serious in some remote county towns.