One of the major initiatives in the drive towards agricultural self sufficiency in Jamaica is the development of rice cultivation on a major scale. Currently much of the rice on sale in Jamaica is imported. Cultivated rice in Jamaica has many pests - one being Pomacea, the Apple Snail. Recently a species of this snail has been identified in Jamaican rivers and in the experimental rice plots. This snail species may or may not damage the rice crop by eating the young seedlings; it may be beneficial to rice growth. Our research seeks to establish the effect of the presence of the snail on rice growth and if the species is found to be a pest, to examine the best mechanisms which could be used to control it.