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Over 1.8 million pest birds killed in eastern Uganda
The birds that invaded the rice fields
Posted Wednesday, July 24 2013 at 09:49
The agriculture ministry have carried out an aerial bird control operation at Kibimba Rice Scheme in Bugiri District killing about 1.8 million quelea birds.
The firm is managed by Tilda Uganda Limited.
The operation was carried out together with the Desert Locust Control Organization of East Africa. The regional desert locust control body provided an aircraft and crew that sprayed the birds' roosters and feeding grounds with an avicide known as Fethion.
The quelea birds that belong to the weaver family and were, according to Mr Evarist Magara, the country director of the locust control body, destroying over 1.5 tonnes of rice per day which is worth Shs40 million.
He said some of the birds migrated from the nearby Kween district where they destroyed over 1,000 acres of sorghum. The destroyed sorghum was valued at about Shs1 billion.
Mr Magara said the spraying targeted grasslands which are resting grounds for the birds which he said were about 2million before the exercise.
He said the chemical that was used is meant to kill small birds and locusts adding that it was not dangerous to humans because it had severally been used in Kenya and Tanzania.
He said the National Environment Management Authority was aware of the action.
Mr Magara said the high population of the birds had forced the company to employ over 300 men to scare them from the rice field which method was not effective.
He said the seasonal migratory quelea birds live in savannah grasslands south of the Sahara Desert, in East Africa
Statistics from the Desert Locust Control Organization of East Africa indicates that the birds move in a flock of about 100,000 birds. One flock can destroy 1,000kgs of cereals per day since each bird consumes and destroys 10grams of cereals on a daily basis.
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