teff Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/teff/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 20 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 teff Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/teff/ 32 32 Locust plague threatens to spread from Somalia and eastern Ethiopia https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/locust-plague-threatens-to-spread-from-somalia-and-eastern-ethiopia/ Fri, 20 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/locust-plague-threatens-to-spread-from-somalia-and-eastern-ethiopia/ A plague of desert locusts is denuding crops in Somalia and parts of neighbouring Ethiopia It could spread to at least five other countries in the region. In one Somali town the residents have started eating the pests. The locust plague is the worst in a quarter of a century. It has stripped the cereal […]

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]]> A plague of desert locusts is denuding crops in Somalia and parts of neighbouring Ethiopia

It could spread to at least five other countries in the region.

In one Somali town the residents have started eating the pests.

The locust plague is the worst in a quarter of a century.

It has stripped the cereal grass teff and maize being harvested on 70 000 hectares in Somalia and eastern Ethiopia.

With climatic conditions favourable to their breeding and governments in the region poorly equipped to fight the plague, locusts could spread in to Kenya, Eritrea, Djibouti, Sudan and South Sudan. 

In the central Somali town of Adado, residents have started eating the locusts after Islamic scholars reportedly declared them Halaal. 

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