The Busia District Production department inconjuction with the ministry of Agriculture, animal husbandry and Fisheries has confirmed that Busia is free from locusts as it was earlier on alleged by the farmers from the villages of buduma and Nanyoni, Buhubalo parish, Buyanga sub county in Busia District.
According to the Agricultural Officer at Buyanga sub county, Ologe Steven, said that they first got the samples of the suspected locusts and sent them to the commissioner of crop protection in Entebbe, and they gave a feedback which indicated that these were just variegated grasshoppers.
And as a district has managed to spray them by the use of some chemical called extreme.
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