Keeping away poverty by being innovative

Some from IIPE organized for a workshop which was attended by farmers. It was about their latest finding that keep away tsetse flies from their cattle.
A cow urine together with wild waterbuck urine are mixed together with a chemical which is then worn as collars aroud necks of cattles. This repels the dreaded flied as they are known to avoid feeding on waterbucks which are common in tsetse habitat.
The collar slowly dispence the chemicalsin them hence protects the animal and herdera from the flies
This finding is a boost to livestock keepers who incur huge losses from these deadly flies


Location: Shimba Hills, Kwale, Kenya