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A team of high-level entomologists from the Department of Agricultural Extension and the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute will work to identify, prevent, control and destroy ‘grasshopper lobsters’, a Ministry of Agriculture press release said on Friday.
Separate teams of experts from the Bangladesh Paddy Research Institute and the Bangladesh Atomic Agriculture Research Institute will also visit Teknaf.
A few days ago, some trees in the Lombri village of Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar are said to have been attacked by “some small grasshopper insects”.
“Recently, if these insects like grasshoppers reappear, the Ministry of Agriculture has taken the initiative with the utmost importance.”
The deputy director of the Cox’s Bazar Agricultural Extension Department said in a statement that the insects on the trees died after spraying pesticides on Thursday, leaving no more live insects there.
“Insects are initially thought to be less harmful. These insects are not locusts that fly in flocks in the desert. “
The government has asked all concerned not to panic as these insects are considered locusts.
That bug at Cox’s Bazar is not a locust.
Abul Kashem, deputy director of the Cox’s Bazar District Agricultural Extension Department, told bdnews24.com on Thursday that the wings of those insects in the village of Lombari were not like those of a grain-eating locust.
“The way the panic is spreading over this insect in Teknaf, the fact that the locusts have entered Bangladesh is not the problem. Because I have not heard that this insect has destroyed the crop and that existence has not been found of this insect in the farmland ”.
According to international media reports, locusts have been invading various African countries since late last year, including Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, causing extensive damage to crops.
Pakistan has been fighting locusts since the beginning of this year. On January 31, the country’s government declared a state of emergency.
By destroying 22,000 acres of crops in Pakistan’s Sindh province, the locust swarm also invaded Indian Punjab. They took the initiative to bring a special type of duck from China to handle lobsters.
When asked if the group of locusts could also come to Bangladesh, Shabbir bin Jahan, director of the plant protection branch of the Department of Agricultural Extension, told bdnews24.com on March 1 that they had not received any messages from the ministry about lobsters.
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