For the first time ever in Tajikistan, treatments with a biopesticide Metarhizium acridum were conducted against Moroccan locust during the national demonstration conducted by FAO in April 2024. The demonstration consisted of two...

A training on locust identification and monitoring was organized by the Russian Agricultural Center on 17-18 April 2024 in Orenburg, Russian Federation, and delivered by the FAO Senior Locust Management Expert. Despite the...

Mass hatching of the Moroccan Locust (DMA) started in the three southern Central Asia (CA) countries in March mainly, during the second decade in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and the third decade in Afghanistan. No...

Two activities were organized in Kazakhstan during the first half of April 2024, in close liaison with the State Inspection Committee in the Agricultural Sector of the Ministry of Agriculture as well as...

With FAO support, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan continued their close collaboration and coordinated efforts on locust management by conducting a cross-border survey on 2-7 April in their southern regions. Ten locust experts participated, from...