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Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia
Moroccan Locust (DMA), Tajikistan 2008 ©FAO/A. Monard

General Situation during August 2025 Forecast for September 2025

The locust control campaign was completed in all Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries, the situation being thus calm for all species, in all areas, at the end of the reporting period. Moroccan locust (DMA) lifecycle was completed in Caucasus while Italian locust (CIT) and Asian migratory locust (LMI) natural lifecycles started to come to an end; the die off will continue in September in remaining areas. Treatments were conducted in four countries in August, covering 20  494  hectares (ha). With this, the total area treated in CCA during the 2025 campaign reached 3 856 752 ha, which is about 10% lower than the previous year (4 295 137 ha). In September, countries will continue campaign analyses and a few of them will start the autumn egg-pod surveys. 

General Situation during August 2010 Forecast until mid-October 2010
The situation continued to be calm in August in all CCA countries with life cycles of the three main locust pests almost completed. Areas treated in August amounted less than 6,000 ha, which represents one tenth of the area treated in July. For the first time...
General Situation during July 2010 Forecast until mid-September 2010
The situation was becoming calm in all CCA countries with locust life cycles about to be completed. Areas treated in July were less than 4% of those treated in June, i.e. a bit more than 50,000 hectares against DMA (185,000 ha in June) and less than...
General Situation during June 2010 Forecast until mid-August 2010
DMA immature and mature adults were present in all CCA countries that were already infested, and DMA life cycle completed in southern Central Asia. CIT hatching started in Kyrgyzstan, hopper development continued in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and fledging started in some places. LMI...
General Situation during May 2010 Forecast until mid-July 2010
DMA hopper development is coming to an end in southern CCA countries and treatmentswill decrease; monitoring of remaining adult populations should continue to identify egg-beds in view of the 2011 locust campaign in particular in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. CIT and LMI hatching and hopper...
General Situation during April 2010 Forecast until mid-June 2010
The situation related to the Moroccan Locust (DMA) deteriorated during April in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan with a significant increase of treated areas. A critical unprecedented situation arose in Georgia, where DMA infestations were detected along the border with Azerbaijan. In Kazakhstan, hopper control campaign started against DMA...