Locust control
INP
ISLAMABAD
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) spokesman has said that some 1,102 teams of the authority are engaged in locust control operation in affected districts across the country.
In a statement issued here on Sunday, the NDMA spokesman said that the authority has so far carried out poisonous fumes spray of over 492,000 hectare locust hit areas.
The spray of 4,900 hectare area and survey of 363,000 hectare area under the locusts attack have been carried out in the last 24 hours, he added.
He further stated that the NDMA teams have conducted both aerial and ground spray of 3,200 hectare area of Balochistan, 200 hectare area of Punjab, 800 hectare area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 700 hectare area of Sindh during the last 24 hours.
The spokesman said a total of 52 districts, 31 of Balochistan, 10 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 5 of Punjab and 6 of Sindh, had been hit by the locust swarms.
