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Madagascar - FAO Warns of Locusts Spread

sharon sanders

Editor-in-Chief & President
via machine translation -
After the crisis, imports of wheat .. Food and Agriculture Organization warns of the impact of locusts on food security the world ..
Ministry of Agriculture and reduce the severity Despite its prevalence in Madagascar


الإثنين، 16 أغسطس 2010 - 10:34​
Monday, August 16, 2010 - 10:34
FAO warns of locust swarms
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Warned the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations "FAO" of Madagascar and its neighboring countries are at risk of the spread of locusts can eat agricultural crops.
The Food and Agriculture Organization "FAO" in its monthly report that the communications received by the numbers is the ability of communities immature locust Almlajasy-Muhajir, was formed actually began to move outside the southwestern corner of Madagascar, heading towards the east and north, the authorities put the government in Madagascar that the dangers threaten the potential of up to 460,000 rural households according to the report published on the WHO web site eBook.
For its part, reduced the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of Egypt seriousness of the appearance of locust populations in Madagascar in Egypt, said Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Director General of the locust control and aviation ministry that the danger comes only from the surrounding countries in Egypt, like Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea south, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya to the west, and Egypt has been the control units in all the border states for the detection of locust swarms as they arise.

"Abdel Rahman said that Egypt has set up monitoring units in Siwa and peace to the west and Shalatin Abu ashes of the south, the units are permanently based reporting locust outbreaks in neighboring countries," The recent report of the Food and Agriculture Organization emphasized that the activity of locusts in the neighboring countries to Egypt, so there is no serious appearance in Madagascar, and the natural conditions are not conducive to migration of locusts to Egypt or any of the neighboring countries. "
The FAO in Tgariha that Madagascar is currently experiencing a period of off-season dry and cold, but appropriate for breeding, but the weather is wet and warm-season wet, which lasts into the spring - create optimal conditions for the rapid proliferation, under the right conditions can breed locusts in the form of generation new almost every two months, and up to four generations in one year.
The Organization "FAO" had sent a survey mission to the island of Madagascar to assess conditions over the past week, returning uncertain in close coordination with the national authorities of the seriousness of the situation and the need to begin aerial surveillance of the movement of locusts early September.


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