Scheme to use drones for communal spraying, increase output

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The Lower Kuja Irrigation Scheme management will incorporate drones to end quelea birds menace and push communal spraying to boost yields. Scheme manager Kennedy Ouma said the drones will target spraying for the birds’ breeding grounds to stump out their population. “The farms have been a hotspot for the birds which lead to great losses. We are partnering with investors from Ind...

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