{"id":13839,"date":"2020-02-11T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2020-02-11T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:10:11","slug":"swarms-of-locusts-reach-uganda-food-panic-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/swarms-of-locusts-reach-uganda-food-panic-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarms of locusts reach Uganda; food panic rises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Locusts entered Uganda on Sunday through Amudat district in\nKaramoja sub region. They moved from North West Pokot in Kenya where they had done\na great damage. The locusts have been destroyed a big part of Kenya\u2019s farm\nproduce over the previous weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These desert locusts move in large groups and destroy any\ngreen cover in sight. They move in about 2 million a swarm and take about 2\nweeks to mature to full age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government is holding crisis meetings on how to prevent the\ndamage that these locusts might create in Uganda. Meetings have also been held\nearlier in preparation for the hazard and motorized sprayers on pickups and\ntractors have been moved to the region to control the movement of the locusts &nbsp;to other parts of the country.\n\n\n\n\n\nlsdu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locusts entered Uganda on Sunday through Amudat district in Karamoja sub region. They moved from North West Pokot in Kenya where they had done a great damage. The locusts have been destroyed a big part of Kenya\u2019s farm produce over the previous weeks. 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