Massive flocks of the red-billed quelea bird — a notorious African crop pest — have decimated grain harvests across Zimbabwe.
by the thousands — have been attacking grain harvests not only in Matabeleland North province but across Zimbabwe in recent weeks, according to recent comments by Shingirai Nyamutukwa, who heads the Zimbabwean agriculture ministry’s migratory pest security department.
“Chemicals have started trickling into the country from Kenya as we intensify efforts to control marauding quelea birds which are destroying the country’s winter wheat crop,” Nyamutukwa said at the time.
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