By Agwanda Jowi

Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) project has managed to suppress tsetse fly populations in the Lake Victoria Basin .

Permanent Secretary Ministry of Livestock Development Kenneth Lusaka says the campaign targeted local communities through community based organizations which constructed crush pens for spraying livestock.

Lusaka says the campaign uses a multi -faceted approach in the eradication of tsetse flies by killing the tsetse flies through livestock spraying, target installation and mass treatment of livestock using trypanocidal drugs.

He called upon the communities along the Lake Basin to put into profitable agricultural use freed areas.

He says this will not only safeguard against the problem of re infestation but will also empower the local communities economically.

In a speech read on his behalf in Kisumu by Margaret Nyadong an official from the Ministry during a workshop on livestock improvement, the PS says with the eradication of livestock diseases, meat production for export is expected to increase.

Lusaka urged farmers to work closely with the campaign project to maintain the gains already achieved through proper utilization of land available.

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