Lebanon battles swarms of locusts after wind adjustments course
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Posted On May 15, 2021
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The agriculture ministry, which is on full alert, mentioned on Monday giant numbers of the locusts had been destroyed.
There have been no large farming losses to date however there are issues that extra swarms could possibly be blown to the south of Lebanon, caretaker agriculture minister Abbas Mortada informed Reuters.
“We managed in little time to destroy big numbers however some have escaped and there are giant portions nonetheless, principally within the Hermel space of Marjaheen,” Mortada mentioned.
The locusts, which threaten crops, are the most recent addition to a protracted record of challenges confronted by Lebanon, which is battling its worst monetary disaster in a long time.
The Baalbek-Hermel area within the northeast has principally livestock farming with a couple of cherry plantations affected by the locusts to date whereas Lebanon’s south has extra agricultural land.
“We’re prepared for something that will happen,” Mortada mentioned.
The United Nations Meals and Agriculture Group (FAO) mentioned the incidence was uncommon for the world however {that a} change in wind course had blown the locusts in from Saudi Arabia to Jordan and onwards to Syria and Lebanon.
“It’s a very uncommon incidence… the breeding grounds had been on the Purple Coastline, Saudi Arabia’s northern coast, in order that they had been blown in by Jordan and Syria,” Maurice Saade, the FAO consultant in Lebanon, mentioned.
“However to date it’s below management and I actually see nothing to panic about,” he mentioned.
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