Museveni roots for technological advancement in fight against desert locusts
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has expressed the need to retool the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa with new ...
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Artificial Intelligence Helping African Farmers in Fight Against Locusts
A free tool that will help farmers and pastoralists across Africa to predict and control locust behaviour has been launched. ...
East Africa faces a new outbreak of locusts amid COVID-19 battle
As the world battles COVID-19, farmers in East Africa are facing another devastating outbreak: swarms of desert locusts. The International ...
Use of pesticides on locusts worries MPs
The use of pesticides in bid to fight the growing swarm of locusts in the eastern part of the country ...
United States announces Shs30b to locust control operations in East Africa
WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, February 20, 2020: In response to the outbreak of desert locusts in East Africa, ...
MP Abala: Despite release of funds to fight locusts, no intervention has been made in Teso
Ngora County MP David Abala has appealed for intervention in combating the invasion of locusts in Teso and other parts ...
Fears grow as locusts swarm towards South Sudan
JUBA, South Sudan, February 18, 2020: The food supplies of some of the most vulnerable children and families in South ...
Stop locusts in East Africa now or pay much more to help people later – WFP boss
It will be vastly more cost-effective to support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to tackle ...
Vision’s Kabushenga takes on Prophet Mbonye followers, calls them ‘dimwits’
Vision Group Chief Executive Officer Robert Kabushenga early this opened war against Prophet Elvis Mbonye’s followers. It all started when ...
Locusts invasion: City traders blame gov’t for not giving them business to supply pesticides
Kampala city traders dealing in insecticides have asked government to mind much about the side effects of the pesticides being ...
