Uganda's agriculture ministry just dropped 2.4 billion shillings on 20,000 liters of bug killer to help livestock farmers deal with tsetse flies that keep spreading sleeping sickness and wrecking cattle productivity across 65 at-risk districts. Minister Bright Rwamirama said the Deltamethrin spray targets zones near wildlife parks where the bugs breed and mess up both farming income and tourism revenue.
Dr. Wangoola Robert Mandela from the vector control department warned farmers not to get complacent just because infection rates dipped in some areas, and he pushed people to keep applying treatments after government programs wrap up. The ministry wants communities to handle routine animal health maintenance themselves since public funding alone cannot sustain long-term disease elimination.
Dr. Wangoola Robert Mandela from the vector control department warned farmers not to get complacent just because infection rates dipped in some areas, and he pushed people to keep applying treatments after government programs wrap up. The ministry wants communities to handle routine animal health maintenance themselves since public funding alone cannot sustain long-term disease elimination.
