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Tanzanian Council Culls Red-Billed Weavers to Save Crops

Moshi District Council has completed a special operation to kill about 5.6 million quelea quelea birds which had invaded 2,135 hectares of paddy in three irrigation schemes in Moshi Rural District.

Moshi District Council Executive Director, Butamo Ndalahwa, confirmed here yesterday that the exercise was successful despite some minor challenges. He said farmers were happy and they expect bumper harvest.

The government, he said, acted fast to avert loss of yield as the red-billed weavers had proved destructive. The Moshi council secured 325 litres of poison from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries in Dar es Salaam to contain the destructive birds.

Derek Keats

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