Staff Reporter
Islamabad
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has started dispatching medical items, sprayers to provinces for killing the locusts in their respective areas. According to the NDMA spokesman on Saturday, 12 each spraying machines had been sent to Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan while six and eight sprayers had been provided to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and department of plants protection (DPP) respectively.
He said the affected provinces had been provided 350,000 litres medicine for killing the locusts. He said Balochistan had been provided 106,200 litre, Sindh 124,000 litre, Punjab 79,800 litre and DPP was provided 40,000 litre medicine included 300,000 litre methylene, 96 percent ULV and 50,000 litre Limda two per cent.
Deputy Commissioner Omar Sher Chattah has said that locusts was a national issue and for saving national agriculture from devastation the field operation and surveillance teams need to work on warlike basis. Deputy Commissioner has expressed the views on his inspection visit at ongoing operation for anti- locust started by agricultural and other institutions at Dhaba Karsial and Dhranga district Mianwali.
Omar Sher Chattah said that till the complete eradication of locusts the surveillance and combat operation must be continued adding that for the purpose the district administration will provide all out resources. Talking to people on the occasion the deputy commissioner said that Punjab government was utilizing every possible resource for eradicating locust and prevention of crops on exigent basis; he said.
