Farmers develop taste for insects as drought hurts crops

“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.