Drones deployed to fight locusts in Samburu as farms ravaged


Nation | by Geoffrey Ondieki

Disaster response teams in Samburu have started using drones equipped with mapping sensors to spray desert locusts that are ravaging crops and pasturelands in the region.

Millions of the voracious insects have swept across East Africa in what the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has termed as the worst outbreak in a quarter of a century.

The second generation of the pests is threatening to increase food shortages in Samburu, a region where…

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