Our Correspondent
Quetta
Balochistan Minister for Agriculture, Engineer Zmarak Khan Achakzai on Tuesday said the provincial government is taking all measures to protect crops from locust and started anti-locust spay in all districts of the province.
Presiding over a meeting to review steps taken for locust eradication in the province, he said locusts have become global issue and the Department of Agriculture and other relevant agencies would have to take concrete measures on regular basis to protect crops.
He said the Department of Agriculture should improve his capacity to reduce losses. The Minister said government stood with the land owners to fight their grievances and would extend all possible cooperation to them.
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Tuesday continued the spray and survey of various areas of country aiming to purge from locust plague. A spokesman of NDMA said in a statement that both ariel and ground spray of various districts was being conducted right now. Sharing the details of the spray, he said the spraying of 5,100 hectare areas of Balochistan, 1,900 of Punjab, 700 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 531 hectare areas of Sindh.
