• Keshe said the government is targeting to eradicate about four million quelea birds using chemicals. • She said officials from the state department of agriculture have mapped out areas where the ...

The MPBCD falls under the Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development ministry. According to research by the United Kingdom-based organisation, the Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC), ...

FEW data are available concerning the environmental factors involved in the ‘timing’ of the reproductive cycles of equatorial birds. The annual fluctuation of day-length on the equator is only about ...

The Kebbi State government has commenced aerial spray against quelea birds which has devastated some farmlands in three local government areas of the state. The councils are Argungu, Bagudo and Kalgo ...

Toxic pesticides used to eradicate grain-eating quelea may harm the country’s endangered raptors, say conservationists A drive by the Kenyan government to kill up to 6 million red-billed quelea birds ...

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Rose Nekesa's rice field in western Kenya has been invaded by huge swarms of the voracious red-billed quelea bird. Thousands of farmers like her near the lakeside city of Kisumu fear they will reap ...

An operation to control an infestation of quelea birds in southern Ethiopia has been launched by the Ministry of Agriculture. With a spray aircraft and support team provided by the Desert Locust ...

Quelea birds are posing a serious threat to the winter wheat crop which is nearing maturity in the country's five provinces, warns the Plant Quarantine and Plant Protection Research Services Institute ...