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“The noise is to make it sound like rainfall, so that the termites are tricked into coming out of the ground,” he tells Thomson Reuters Foundation.PHOTO:COURTESY
The knee-high dome on Ikung’u Kathimbu’s farm in Weru village, Eastern Kenya, shelters an unusual crop: a termite swarm.
Kathimbu walks around the structure covered with banana leaves, drumming on a tin-like vessel and stamping his feet on the ground.
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