Latakia - Sana
The Directorate of Agriculture in Latakia stated that a number of desert locusts had reached the Umm Al-Bird area in the northern Latakia countryside, which are insignificant small numbers.
The Assistant Director of Agriculture, Eng. Nawaf Shehadeh, told SANA that after receiving a report from the investigation teams in the Lattakia Agriculture Directorate about the presence of desert locust sightings in the village of Umm al-Tayyar, teams from the Prevention and Pest Control Departments visited the site to verify the phenomenon, as some desert locusts were seen scattered and not Pose no gatherings or danger.
The Agriculture Directorate in Lattakia had taken several precautionary and preventive measures to deal with desert locusts in the event that they reached the governorate’s lands, as 20 tractors were allocated with their sprayers to the four regions of the governorate, and fog diffusers were loaded on pickups, numbering 6 and shoulder-borne spreaders, number 5, in addition to preparing the appropriate pesticides. For control and water supply tanks, in addition to forming 24-hour investigation and combat teams.
