Super Ranch: Brothers come to Africa to farm

Chapter 567 Protective Measures!

To deal with locusts, the current common approach is to spray pesticides to kill locusts in large numbers.

But this method was immediately rejected by Wang Lu.

No way, those chemical pesticides that can kill locusts, even the least toxic ones, will inevitably have a certain impact on humans and other wild mammals and birds in the spray area.

Moreover, once a locust plague breaks out, if you want to rely on spraying chemical pesticides to deal with these locusts, you must spray large areas and large doses, and the cumulative toxicity cannot be underestimated.

This is something Wang Lu cannot accept!
He doesn't want the crops and crops in his living area to be contaminated by chemicals. Although he ate a lot of pesticide residues when he was in China, we are now so rich, why can't we pursue it a little bit?

But facing the coming locusts, Wang Lu really had a headache and didn't know how to deal with them.

In the end, I could only think of the stupidest way, which was physical blocking.

"Our vegetable gardens are all covered with greenhouses, and as for the crop fields, they are all surrounded by fine netting!"

Although locusts are ferocious, there is nothing they can do as long as they are not allowed to come into contact with the vegetables grown in the pasture living area.

Although the method is stupid, as long as it works!

Covering such a large area with a fence requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

But this is nothing to Wang Lu. In the face of Qian's ability, nothing is a problem.

If there is no film material for greenhouses locally, it can be flown directly from Dar es Salaam. There are also special fences, so just purchase them on a large scale and you're done!

Parker quickly contacted an agricultural equipment company. The other party was a little surprised after hearing the things Wang Lu needed to purchase. Fortunately, after Wang Lu paid readily, the other party also said they would ship the goods immediately!
Wang Lu was not idle at the ranch. Together with the veterans, he first erected wooden frames in the vegetable fields and crop fields so that they could be covered and installed directly after the greenhouse films and protective nets arrived.

While the ranch was busy, local officials also officially issued a notice, verifying the news that a locust plague was about to sweep through the area.

Suddenly, the entire area began to panic.

In fact, this is not the first time that locust plagues have swept through East Africa, but this is the first time for the Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions where the ranch is located.

Therefore, most areas were unprepared, especially the local farmers, who were swept by panic.

Once the local food crops are swept by locusts, they will basically be waiting for the result of no harvest. The locals themselves have no habit of storing food. If they are attacked by locusts, famine may even occur!

Yes, that’s right, today in the 21st century, in a modern society with such rapid technological advancement, famine will still happen!
"Boss, the situation is very bad! Due to lack of preparation, the local area does not even have chemical pesticides to protect against locusts..."

Parker also reported the news to Wang Lu with some helplessness.Wang Lu didn't have the slightest doubt about this. After all, this was the routine operation of African black brothers. They had no sense of worry at all. The only thing they could do was stare at them when things really happened...
The local government can't come up with any effective measures. Even if they know that the locusts are coming, they can't do anything, or they can just mess it up!

Wang Lu didn't have much thought about this. He was not a holy mother, but he still paid Parker to purchase a batch of chemical pesticides that could kill locusts and distributed them to the villages near the town of Baria, especially those Maasai village.

That's all he can do!

As soon as the greenhouse films and protective nets purchased from Dar es Salaam arrived at the ranch, Wang Lu called on the veterans to arrange them quickly.

Almost all the veterans were busy. Even the old sisters-in-law put down their work to help after hearing about the locusts. But even so, there were still not enough manpower.

After all, there are hundreds of acres of rice, corn, and wheat cropland alone, and the area that needs to be worked on is too large!

But what the ranch is most indispensable for right now is manpower!
Wang Lu spoke directly to the person in charge of the Petrochemical Group and the Construction Assistance Group, and immediately a large number of construction workers rushed from the helium development site to the living area to help. Anyway, the development of the helium field was not far behind on this day.

There are thousands of people busy in the crop fields in the ranch living area, and the efficiency is so fast!
In order to express his gratitude to these construction workers, Wang Lu also announced that he would add three days of extra meals, with enough fragrant stewed meat and several large pots of chicken stewed with mushrooms. This is the most real thing!
With the help of these new forces, all the vegetable fields were covered with greenhouse films in a short period of time, and the protection was properly done.

The crop fields are all surrounded by protective nets, even above them.

The mesh of these protective nets is so fine that locusts cannot get in. Of course, because of this, the light of these food crops may be affected to a certain extent.

But compared to the rice roots and corn stalks being eaten completely by the locusts, this is the most acceptable result.

After all, these locusts cannot stay in the pasture for long. They will continue to migrate in the direction of the airflow caused by tropical cyclones, looking for new feeding places.

According to expert predictions, these locust swarms will stay in the same area for four to five days and leave in up to a week!After all, the problem with these locust swarms is that they are so eatable. Sometimes they can eat all the crops in an entire area in one day, and they have to continue their journey in search of food.

Therefore, the time these locusts stay has a certain relationship with the number of local crops that they can eat!

Four or five days to a week is not too long, and the crops in the living area should be completely bearable!
In addition to these physical precautions, Wang Lu also found Harris in advance and purchased all the guinea fowl from his family farm and put them in the living area.

When the locust swarms really come, the poultry in the pasture will also be able to suppress these pests to a certain extent.

Locusts are quite good food for chickens and ducks.

However, if you want to completely rely on chickens and ducks to clear out the locusts, the number required is very large. Wang Lu did this just to minimize some losses.

Apart from these, Wang Lu has done everything he can, and the rest can only wait for the locusts to arrive!
(End of this chapter)