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  • Tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe report that putting a vetiver hedge around their fields keeps out creeping-grass weeds, such as kikuyu and couch.

    Chapter 23 1996

  • It has also been reported that tobacco farmers have found that hedges of vetiver around their fields keep out creeping grass weeds, such as kikuyu and couch.

    2 Case Studies 1993

  • Firstly during the emergency in Kenya loads of kikuyu men were rounded up and accused of being Mau Mau based on accusations by guards who were collaboratoring with the british.

    Mau Mau to sue the British Government : Law is Cool 2009

  • Then in late 2002 Poza de las Diablas on the south coast of Isabela Island where flamingo and diablo fish breed, was declared a Ramsar Site of International Importance; and a management plan is being prepared to help limit overfishing and invasion by kikuyu grass.

    Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

  • Blackberry Rubus adenotrichis is rampant, elephant grass Pennistum purpureum, African kikuyu grass Pennisetum clandestinum and other grasses and shrubs have taken over many areas of the inhabited islands, especially Santa Cruz.

    Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

  • Firstly during the emergency in Kenya loads of kikuyu men were rounded up and accused of being Mau Mau based on accusations by guards who were collaboratoring with the british.

    2009 June : Law is Cool 2009

  • He pulled his opening drive well left of the fairway bunker and had to punch out from the gnarly kikuyu primary rough.

    Tiger Limps Out of the Gate 2008

  • Or sink into a deep green stand of kikuyu grass from which there is no alternative but a hard chop back toward the fairway with a wedge.

    Things May Get Rough 2008

  • I stood near Michael Allen, a 49-year-old American who got here through open qualifying, practice short pitches from the devilish, deep, broad-leafed kikuyu rough around the 18th green, and the ball never seemed to come out of the stuff the same way twice.

    Things May Get Rough 2008

  • That particular church as you failed to mention was burnt down by Kalenjin youth in the Rift Valley which has been party to ethnic clashes over land and resources for 20 years between the encroaching kikuyu and the Nandi and Kalenjin both christians.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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