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Madagascar: New Build-Up of Locusts Threatens Crops, ‘The Livelihoods of 13 Million People Could be Affected’

06/21/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

By Joe DeCapua – “Madagascar is again facing a locust threat. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says there’s another build-up of locusts in southwestern Madagascar that could become a ‘plague’ if no action is taken. If unchecked, the FAO says, the livelihoods of 13 million people could be affected.

It’s the same area of the country where operations were conducted from last October through April to control the insects. Some 200 thousand infested hectares were sprayed.

‘The current situation is very serious because it’s what we call an upsurge. The locust infestations are still contained in the southwestern part of Madagascar. [It was the biggest] success of all operations we carried out during the locust campaign [of] 2010 / 2011. But there is still a high risk to have a worse situation during the next rainy season,’ said FAO locust officer Annie Monard.” Read more.

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