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Reprieve for Wheat, barley and sorghum farmers in Narok as destructive birds killed

Some of the scarecrows put by wheat farmers in Ololung'a area in Narok South to scare away the invasive quelea birds.The birds have invade wheat fields leaving a trail of destruction as they feast on the wheat grain. [PHOTOS:ROBERT KIPLAGAT].

Officials in the ministry of Agriculture are turning to explosives to eradicate a bird that wreaks havoc on grain harvests.

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