Agriculture: high temperatures threaten locusts to reach the kingdom

Arab Weather - The Ministry of Agriculture said that the expected temperature rises in the coming weeks and the movement of winds will greatly increase the risk of locust swarms reaching the Kingdom.

The ministry said in a press statement today, Tuesday, that locust movement at the regional level, according to reports issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and locust prediction centers in neighboring countries, indicates a significant and dangerous development in terms of the formation of swarms and their movement from one place to another. The statement indicated that the desert locust situation in the Horn of Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania and the Congo is witnessing a great and dangerous development as locust swarms form and move from one place to another, as this week witnessed a movement of swarms in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the southern coasts of Iran and the interior coasts of the island Arabic.

In spite of the control operations, the situation is getting worse, especially in the Horn of Africa, in addition to recording a strange phenomenon with the division of flocks in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and the start of breeding in each region separately with the presence of adult flocks and new flocks. The Ministry confirmed that, through careful follow-up to the results of daily exploratory campaigns in the governorates located on the Desert Locust traffic map in the south, there is no locust swarm.

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