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Farmers urged to use insect nets to control locust invasion

Insect nets

The continued locust invasion has left farmers and pastoralist living around the horn of Africa. The climatic and ecological conditions in some parts of Kenya are at the highest risk of new swarm invasion.  Cynthia Waitiri a sales agronomist at Transglobal Distributors Ltd has asked farmers to purchase and install white insect nets on their farms to control locust invasion. This comes as a relief to farmers who are suffering severely from the locust invasion crisis.

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