Turning a Locust Invasion into a Fertilizer Boon
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Photo caption: A swarm of desert locusts can be made up of 150 million locusts per square kilometer. Photo credit: Holger Kirk via Shutterstock. Article by Joseph Maina. Modern Farmer – March 15, 2023.
They say when life throws you lemons, you make lemonade. But what happens when life throws swarms of desert locusts your way? You could make fertilizer from those locusts, as a team of innovators in Kenya demonstrated after a devastating invasion. Running from 2018 to early 2022, the massive locust outbreak that hit parts of Eastern Africa and the Middle East destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops and […]
