{"id":8866,"date":"2020-03-31T08:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","slug":"state-outlines-more-measures-to-fight-locust-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/31\/state-outlines-more-measures-to-fight-locust-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"State Outlines More Measures To Fight Locust Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Government of Kenya has put up additional measures to enhance locust control as a new generation of the insects emerge from eggs that had been laid in the first wave of invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya said they are sourcing 100,000 litres of pesticide and plans are already in place to add 20 more aircraft to be used in aerial spraying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Munya said 10 of the aircraft will be used for spraying with the remaining 10 to be deployed for surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile the control operation has proceeded well, some locusts matured and laid eggs that have hatched into hoppers, some developing to first generation immature swarms,\u201d said Mr Munya (right).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is therefore need to enhance the control operations as we focus on the new generation of locusts in the country.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/economy\/measures-to-fight-locust-invasion\/3946234-5508338-10st1sm\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Kenya has put up additional measures to enhance locust control as a new generation of the insects emerge from eggs that had been laid in the first&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8590,"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-8866","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\/8866","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=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}