Ministry of Agriculture criticised as red locusts invade Uganda

Twenty nine years ago this month, the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Industry came under heavy criticism in the National Resistance Council (NRC) for failure to put in place an efficient early warning system.

This, according to members of the NRC, would have enabled the ministry to detect and perhaps avert an invasion by red locusts (Nomadacris Septemfasciata). Red locusts normally breed in some areas of Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.

Mr Adrian Sibo, a presidential nominee to the NRC, informed the council that it was the Tanzanians that had warned the Ugandan authorities of the…