{"id":1264,"date":"2012-02-10T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2012\/02\/10\/farmers-urged-to-act-swiftly-against-locust\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:22:32","slug":"farmers-urged-to-act-swiftly-against-locust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2012\/02\/10\/farmers-urged-to-act-swiftly-against-locust\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers urged to act swiftly against locust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/02\/locusts.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" \/>The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform\u00a0 and Rural Development in the Northern Cape urges all farmers in the province especially in the Pixley ka Seme District to report\u00a0 swarms of locust on their farms. The department is faced with the challenge of farmers who are not reporting swarms. These\u00a0 swarms pose a serious threat if not well controlled. <\/p>\n<p>Farmers in the Pixley Ka Seme District towns of Hopetown, Britstown, Strydenburg and Petrusville are requested to act swiftly against locust by<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Immediately making contact with the Department of Agriculture\u2019s Locust control department in De Aar on 053 631 3122 should they notice swarms.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flying swarms settling destinations should be reported\u00a0 in order for control measures to be applied.<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Absent farmers are warned of suffering exponential losses should they not give attention, as their farms might act as reproduction hotspot which will further exacerbate problem;<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Farmers are\u00a0 requested to allow immediate access t to the locust control teams and be assured that the chemicals that are being used are environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n<p>These teams have been on alert for the last two months and are also on stand-by to ensure the control of the locusts. Farmers may call 082 451 4862 to report any swarms on their farms.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by; Directorate Strategic Communications-<\/p>\n<p>Source: Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development<br \/>Enquiries: Phemelo Manankong-External Communication Officer<br \/> 053 839 7861\/2 or 072 215 7848<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform\u00a0 and Rural Development in the Northern Cape urges all farmers in the province especially in the Pixley ka Seme District to report\u00a0 swarms of locust on their farms. The department is faced with the challenge of farmers who are not reporting swarms. These\u00a0 swarms pose a serious threat if<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2012\/02\/10\/farmers-urged-to-act-swiftly-against-locust\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}