India awaits Pak response on offer of coordinated response to control desert locusts issue

Indian government has proposed a coordinated response to Iran and Pakistan for desert locust control which is expected to move from spring breeding of Balochistan to summer breeding along India-Pakistan border. India has suggested providing pesticide Malathion to Pakistan to control operation along border, sources have reported. While Iran has positively responded to offer, Indian government is still awaiting a response from Imran Khan-led ministration. 

proposal was me against backdrop of reports that swarms of destructive pests were making ir way to Indian states such as Rajasthan after breeding and maturing in Iranian provinces and Pakistan’s Balochistan province.

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Pakistan response awaited

"It remains to be seen if Pakistan will rise above its narrow-minded approach, as was seen in case of India’s regional initiative for COVID and come forward with cooperation on coordinated desert locust control operation with India," ANI sources reported. Pakistan was also last member country of SAARC to pledge support to COVID relief fund proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi while Pakistan PM Imran Khan h given SAARC meet a skip. 

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According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), hopper bands of locusts are maturing in southwestern coastal plains of in Iran, and ar generation of breeding is underway in country’s souast, where hatching is taking place on coast and in interior of Sistan-Baluchistan. FAO reports suggest desert locust population is expected to move from spring breeding areas in Balochistan to summer breeding along India-Pakistan border. In India, more ult groups and small swarms have arrived from Pakistan in past few weeks, and moved into Rajasthan, reaching Jodhpur.

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