Islamabad
National Locust Control Center on Wednesday said that anti-locust operation have been completed in 1,131,825 hectares across the affected districts and eliminated the pest completely from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh.
The NLCC carried out anti-pest operation over 125 hectares of District Lasbella of Balochistan and 120 hectares of District Rahim Yar Khan of Punjab during last 24 hours in order to eliminate it completely from the country.
The joint teams of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, provincial agriculture departments and the Pakistan Army were conducting a comprehensive survey and control operation against the locusts in effected districts and succeeded to minimize its threat. The joint teams formed to combat the desert locust attacks had also completed survey of about 208,485 hectares of affected areas.—APP
