On Thursday, India said that Pakistan has not yet responded to the activation of the communication channel to respond to the locust problem. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Shrivastava said, 'There is an existing local channel of communication with Pakistan. It usually starts in June every year. In view of the worrisome situation, India suggested to activate the channel, but there has been no response from Pakistan yet.
last week, it was reported that in order to deal with a common enemy, New Delhi had proposed a coordinated response to Pakistan to deal with the desert locust along the border and for this Islamabad was given the insecticide malathion Was also offered to provide the facility of supply. At the same time, India had suggested to Pakistan that both countries should coordinate campaigns to control locusts on the border. Sources said that India has also offered to supply pesticide malathion to Iran to control desert locusts in its Sistan-Balochistan and South Khorasan provinces.
Desert grasshoppers are a species of locust, a herd with small horned grasshoppers. They are known to devour everything in their path, posing an unprecedented threat to the food supplies and livelihoods of millions of people. The same, as reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in Iran, grasshopper hopper bands are maturing along the southwestern coastal plains and another generation of breeding is going on in the southeast Hatching is taking place on the coast.
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