Birds!!
Maybe they should pack up and go to Europe with the other Africans.
Italy’s Salvini Warns Food Shortages Could Cause 20 Million African Migrants To Enter Europe
Posted on 05/17/2022 8:55:43 AM PDT by blam
Massive flocks of the red-billed quelea bird — a notorious African crop pest — have decimated grain harvests across farms in western Zimbabwe in recent weeks, causing fears of a local food shortage in the near future, the online newspaper New Zimbabwe reported Monday.
“Farmers in Umguza and Bubi farming areas in Matebeleland North province are struggling to contain a massive outbreak of quelea birds which are feasting on their crops, mainly small grains,” the publication reported on May 16.
“As a result of the invasion, the farmers, say they are now spending most of their time clanging metal objects and shouting at top of their voices in a desperate bid to save their crops [sic],” according to the newspaper.
Umguza and Bubi are districts within Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North province, which itself is located in western Zimbabwe.
Lavenda Ndlovu, a farmer in Bubi district, told New Zimbabwe on May 16 that he fears the local quelea infestation may lead to crop deficits.
“We are appealing to the government to do something before the birds destroy more crops. A lot of farmers in this area were last year contracted to grow small grains by a local company. Now this outbreak is going to leave a lot of farmers with a crop deficit [sic],” Ndlovu said.
Quelea birds — which are known to flock by the thousands — have been attacking grain harvests not only in Matabeleland North province but across Zimbabwe in recent weeks, according to recent comments by Shingirai Nyamutukwa, who heads the Zimbabwean agriculture ministry’s migratory pest security department.
New Zimbabwe recalled on May 16 that Nyamutukwa “said at a farmer’s winter wheat training workshop at Combe Farm in Zvimba that the issue was reaching crisis levels.” Zvimba is a district of north-central Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province.
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Birds!!
Maybe they should pack up and go to Europe with the other Africans.
Italy’s Salvini Warns Food Shortages Could Cause 20 Million African Migrants To Enter Europe
Rhodesia had better luck.
It seems thousands of dinners are flying around.
Five pounds of flour was $1.56 at Walmart recently.
Three hundred sixty five pounds of flour would be about $120.
That’s probably cheaper than a trip to Europe from southern Africa.
Yep...what I was thinking.....are the birds edible???
if so that’s what’s called a “win win”.
At 1/2 - 3/4 oz and 4-5 inches long, it would only take about 50 of them to make a meal
Birds, drought, etc are often a socialist’s way of saying, “it wasn’t because our policies”
Zimbabwe has earned this pestilence.
Ian Smith was right.
Exactly. When birds were a problem in Mao’s China, he decreed all-out war on the feathered menace and placed a tiny bounty on their tiny heads. Can you guess the outcome? Exactly. The industrious Chinese trapped and killed hundreds of millions of birds, thus giving insects free reign. Their grain crops and stores were wiped out and famine ensued.
Quick! Send them $40 billion too!
“Peace has come to Zimbabwe!”
Quick! Send them $40 billion too!
5-6/2022 corn @ CargillAg Dayton OH. $8.02/BU.
Nobody in Zimbabwe knows how to build a scarequelea?
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