{"id":7308,"date":"2020-01-07T08:24:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","slug":"officials-say-locusts-threat-to-livestock-as-spraying-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/07\/officials-say-locusts-threat-to-livestock-as-spraying-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Say Locusts Threat To Livestock As Spraying Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Business Daily<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has begun the aerial spraying in Wajir\namid fears that the invasion of the desert locusts could adversely affect\nlivestock production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aerial spray comes as a relief to the residents of\nnorthern Kenya who had resorted to desperate measures in repelling the pests\nthat are threatening food security in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Hassan Gure, an official from the county\nDepartment of Agriculture, the first phase of spraying was carried out in Wajir\nSouth targeting the colony of locusts that had settled in an area around\nWajir-Garissa border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second phase targeted a colony of desert locusts\nwhich invaded the county via Diff, an area between the Kenya-Somalia border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Gure said even as the exercise continues another colony of locusts \u2014 way larger than the first current group \u2014 is migrating into Ashabito ward, Mandera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/economy\/Officials-say-locusts-threat-to-livestock\/3946234-5408882-t9995cz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily The government has begun the aerial spraying in Wajir amid fears that the invasion of the desert locusts could adversely affect livestock production. The aerial spray comes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}