IRNA - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Wednesday in the scheme of an emergency technical cooperation project, supplied necessary pesticide sprayers to Iran to assist the country in its effort to control the unprecedented desert locust infestation. As part of an ongoing support provided by the Food and Agriculture ...

Reuters - Iran may use its military for a second year to help fight locusts that have invaded the south of the country, an Agricultural Ministry official was quoted as saying on Friday, as the swarms threaten to destroy crops worth more than $7 billion. The locust invasion, seen as the worst in decades, compounds problems facing Iran, already hard-...

Financial Tribune - Groups of desert locusts have reappeared in southeast Iran. Despite intensive control operations, hopper bands and swarms continue to form along both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border where an unprecedented third generation of breeding started in November. Some swarms have begun their seasonal migration westwards with a few ...

Tehran Times - Some 153 swarms of desert locusts from Saudi Arabia which penetrated into the southeastern provinces have been controlled, Esmaeil Najjar, head of Irans Crisis Management Organization has said. Since the [Iranian calendar] month of Bahman (starting on January 21) we fought swarms of desert locust in approximately 532,000 hectares ...

MNA An Iranian lawmaker said that swarms of locusts attack on southern Iranian regions may be an act of bioterrorism. Given the existing reasons, the locusts attack on parts of the country may be planned strikes designed by other countries and an act of bioterrorism, Ali Akbari, Shirazs representative in the Iranian Parliament told IRNA on Wednesday....

Iran Front Page - The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has dispatched a delegation to Iran to discover the possible sources of the massive attack by desert locusts on parts of the country over the past days, said head of the Iranian Plant Protection Organization. Mohammad Reza Dargahi said the UN delegation will try to find ...

Radio Farda - Iranian Plant Protection Organization (IPPO) warned on Thursday, April 18, that if the necessary budget for fighting desert locusts is not provided within two weeks, nothing could be done, and a locust breakout turns into a new crisis, alongside the flash floods. According to the government's official news agency (IRNA), desert locusts ...