Some 1,241 teams of National Disaster Management
Authority (NDMA) have so far treated a total of 590,000 h
ectares of area during the ongoing locust control operation in the vulnerable districts of the country.
According to the NDMA spokesman, the authority has carried out the survey of over 352,000 h
ectares of area under locusts attack during the last 24 hours.
The teams carried out both aerial and ground spray of 11,730 h
ectare of land including 9,100 hec
tare area of Balochistan, 1,400 hec
tare area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1,200 hec
tare area of Sindh and 300 hec
tare areas Punjab.
The aerial spray was carried out at 500 h
ectare of la
nd in Pashin and 400 h
ectare of la
nd in Sukkur.
The spokesman said a total of 52 districts, 33 of Balochistan, 11 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, two of Pinjab and six of Sindh had been invaded by the locust swarms.
In Balochistan, Khuzdar, Awaran, Naushki, Chaghi, Gwadar, Athal, Ketch, Panjgur, Kharan, Vishk, Quetta and other districts had been hit by desert locust.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dera Ismael Khan, Tank, North and South Waziristan, Lakki Marvat, Karak, Kurram, Naushera, Aurakzai, Khyber and Pesh
awar areas were affected with locusts attack.
Locust swarms were spotted in the cities Dera Ghazi Khan and Muzaffargarh in Punjab province. In Sindh, the affected areas included Khairpur, Sanghar, Sukkur, Shaheed Benazirabad, Mityari and Jamshoro.
