Yesterday, officials in Pakistan confirmed that the country has completely wiped out desert locust swarms, months after the declaration of a national emergency to combat the spread of locusts.
Lieutenant General Most Ijaz, head of the National Center for Locust Control, said: “By the grace of God, and then with the efforts of everyone, we announce today that there are no locusts in Pakistan.” “The locust swarms have begun to retreat since August, and we have cleared the last few hectares of land in two areas this week,” he added, during a ceremony held in the capital, Islamabad.
Pakistan has deployed drones, helicopters, hundreds of vehicles and thousands of agricultural workers since declaring the state of emergency last February.
Swarms of locusts entered Pakistan for the first time in June last year from neighboring Iran, and quickly destroyed large areas of agricultural land in the southwestern regions, as they destroyed cotton, wheat, corn and other crops.
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