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...

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...