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Grains
Dutse, Sept. 20, 2016 (NAN) The Jigawa Emergency Management Agency has distributed over 400 sacks of assorted grains to victims of Quelea birds in Guri Local Government Area of the state.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Alhaji Sani Yusuf, made this known to newsmen on Tuesday in Dutse.
Yusuf said that each of the victims was given one sack of rice, maize, millet and sugar.
He said that the gesture was to assist farmers suffering from damages done to their crops by the birds.
The executive secretary gave the assurance that the gesture would be extended to victims in other local council areas of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Quelea birds have ravaged rice and millet farmlands in seven local government areas of Jigawa.
The other local government areas are Auyo, Kirikasamma, Miga, Birniwa, Kaugama and Malammadori.
To contain the situation, the state government on Sept. 15, commenced a nine-day aerial spraying of pesticides to control the birds in the affected areas.
The spraying will end on Sept. 24. (NAN)
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