{"id":7815,"date":"2020-01-28T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7815"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"scientists-call-for-drone-technology-to-combat-locusts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/28\/scientists-call-for-drone-technology-to-combat-locusts\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Call For Drone Technology To Combat Locusts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya needs advanced drone technology to contain the desert locusts devastating farms and grazing fields in different parts of the country, experts have advised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Dr Muo Kasina, the chairman of Entomological Society of Kenya, the aircraft deployed by the Ministry of Agriculture to conduct<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Fears-grow-as-aerial-locust-spraying-fails\/1056-5419758-ytbexdz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;aerial spraying<\/a>&nbsp;are getting overwhelmed by the huge swarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe government needs to get help from countries with advanced drone technology like the United States, Israel and Denmark to deal with the locust menace before it gets out of hand,\u201d said Dr Kasina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the\u00a0<em>Nation<\/em>\u00a0on Monday, the scientist explained that the aircraft are not able to access certain areas like deep valleys and mountain contours, where some of the locusts may be passing. <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nation.co.ke\/news\/Scientists-call-for-drone-technology-to-combat-locusts\/1950946-5433976-uc887sz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya needs advanced drone technology to contain the desert locusts devastating farms and grazing fields in different parts of the country, experts have advised. According to Dr Muo Kasina, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7741,"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-7815","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\/7815","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=7815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}