The plateau pika has always been regarded as a pest, so the market price is unknown.

Altitude pika has always been considered to compete with livestock for pasture, so some local governments in China It has been trying to eradicate the plateau pika since 1958, when the poisoning program was approved for the first time. It is reported that in 2006, nearly 360,000 square kilometers of Qinghai Province alone had poisons released. The government later allocated huge sums of money to carry out a new phase of the poisoning, costing about $35 million.