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Farmers celebrate death of tse-tse flies

Oxen pull a plough on a farm in Makima, Embu County. Livestock health in the area has improved after tse-tse flies were eradicated through a Kenya Tse-tse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council intervention. [PHOTO: JOSEPH MUCHIRI/STANDARD]

Gibson Chege, the manager of 1,000 acres of land under agriculture in Embu, remembers 2007 as the year when not even one cow under his care produced milk. Not even one litre.

That year, tse-tse flies reigned supreme in the area.

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