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ISLAMABAD, Oct.6 (Xinhua) – Pakistan’s Ministry of Research and National Food Security said on Tuesday that no lobster was found during a survey by special teams in affected areas of the country.
The National Lobster Control Center (NLCC) surveyed about 129,072 hectares of land in the past 24 hours, and no locusts were reported in any of the affected areas of Pakistan, according to a statement issued by the ministry.
In early September, while declaring that the eastern Punjab and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces were locust-free, the ministry said that one district in each of the southern Sindh and southwestern Balochistan provinces witnessed the lobster presence during NLCC survey.
Locust spraying operations have been carried out on about 1.13 million hectares of land across the country over the past six months to eradicate pests and save farmland from their damaging impacts, the ministry said Tuesday. .
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has also praised Pakistan’s mass control operation to control the locust threat.
FAO’s national coordinator for the locust control operation in Pakistan, Mubarik Ahmed, told a weekly meeting of the NLCC on Friday that FAO was citing the locust control operation in Pakistan as ideal, according to reports from the local media. Final product
