{"id":29695,"date":"2016-10-25T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-5-million-quelea-quelea-killed-in-paddy\/"},"modified":"2016-10-25T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:55:07","slug":"tanzania-5-million-quelea-quelea-killed-in-paddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-5-million-quelea-quelea-killed-in-paddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania:5 million quelea quelea killed in paddy farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{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.}<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>On October 3, Ndalahwa consulted the coordinator of the Arusha Plant Health Centre as well as Kilimo Anga Arusha manager to get an airplane from Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s most abundant wild bird species have been destroying paddy at the 440-hectare Lower Moshi Scheme, the 270-hectare Mandaka Mnono Scheme and the 1,425-hectare Mawala Scheme. Agricultural experts had found out there were four beddings situated at TPC Company sugarcane plantations as well as in nearby places.<\/p>\n<p>The birds were usually seen during the morning and evening hours feeding on paddy while spending nights at their beddings in sugarcane plantations. The red-billed diochs have an estimated adult breeding population of 1.5 billion pairs.<\/p>\n<p>The overall world population is expected to be as large as 10 billion. They are found in sub-Saharan Africa but are absent from thickly forested regions and the southern reaches of South Africa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15912 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/quelea.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2476],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-news"],"bylines":[{"id":2476,"name":"DAILY NEWS","slug":"daily-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2476,"name":"DAILY NEWS","slug":"daily-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29695"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29695"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}