Kerala's Bison Valley in India is facing a growing African snail outbreak that is damaging cardamom fields, putting a key local cash crop at risk and deepening pressure on farming households in an already delicate rural economy. Reports from the area indicate that six wards of the Bison Valley panchayat have now been affected, suggesting the damage is no longer limited to isolated plantations. In response, Kerala Agricultural University sent officials to the area to show farmers techniques intended to limit the infestation.