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Somalia Starts Aerial Spraying to Stop Desert Locust Invasion

Mohamed Olad Hassan

   Somali officials say they have deployed helicopters to spray new swarms
   of desert locusts that are eating crops and threatening the country's
   fragile food supply.

   In an interview with VOA, Somalia's Minister of Agriculture Sa'id
   Hussein Iid said that "hired Canadian experts will engage with the
   swarms by spraying bio-organic pesticides from the air, using three
   helicopters."

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