Hundreds of families in Chewele and Sala wards in Tana River County are staring at starvation following the invasion of their irrigation farms by the newly hatched wingless nymph’s locusts. According to the farmers, the deadly pests have already destroyed over 50 acres of irrigated-near- mature maize, water melons, green grams and vegetables farms. The […]
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The county government of Garissa has dispatched a team of 20 personnel each to Sankuri and Kamuthey areas where locust eggs have fully developed into nymph. Speaking to KNA on phone on Thursday, the Agriculture CEC, Mohamed Shale said the exercise is meant to stop the deadly pest from further multiplying. The second generation of […]
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A team of crop experts, veterinary officers and volunteers have been dispatched to to investigate a strange disease that has killed over a 100 goats in areas that have been invaded by the desert locust. This comes as leaders from North Eastern region blamed the National government for failing to contain the spread of the […]
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