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FAO seeks Sh4 3bn for locust fight

FAO seeks Sh4.3bn for locust fight Thursday January 21 2021 By KEVIN ROTICH Summary The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is seeking an additional Sh4.3 billion to help combat the locust menace in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen. Farmers in the four countries are staring at crop and dairy losses due to an upsurge in locust attacks as funding for aerial spraying and monitoring dries up in March. The UN agency said additional financing for fuel, airtime and pilot hours is needed for the 28 anti-locust aircraft, which are currently in operation. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is seeking an additional Sh4.3 billion to help combat the locust menace in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen.

FAO - News Article: East Africa s locust air force could be grounded, as another wave of the scourge takes flight

Funding shortfalls threaten continued operations Nairobi/New York/Rome, 19 January 2021 - A locust fighting force assembled by countries in East Africa to combat an invasion of the crop-devouring pest is at risk of seeing its activities grind to a halt as funding to sustain its operations dries up, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today. Without additional financing for fuel, airtime, and pilot hours, the 28 anti-locust aircraft which are now patrolling the skies to spot and spray locust swarms could cease operations in March, the Organization told partners at a virtual briefing event today. The locust fighting machine that has been assembled in East Africa is now fully equipped and able to contain, suppress and we believe, eventually end this record-breaking upsurge, said FAO Deputy Director-General Laurent Thomas.

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