From 13 to 18 May 2024, twelve experts, six from the Plant Protection Service, Ministry of Agriculture of Turkmenistan, and six from the Agency for Quarantine and Plant Protection, Ministry of Agriculture of...

Moroccan Locust (DMA) hatching and hopper development was in progress in all Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries. Italian Locust (CIT) hatching had been recorded only in southern Kazakhstan at the end of April....

On 14 May 2024, the side-event organized in FAO-Headquarter, immediately before the start of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia, allowed spotlighting the need for sustainable locust management in CCA,...

A locust cross-border survey was held between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from 23 to 27 April 2024. It involved nine experts, four from the “Republican Methodological Centre on Phytosanitary Diagnosis and Forecasts”, the State...

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...