Islamabad: The desert locust situation in Pakistan was fast deteriorating and swarms have found a new corridor from Afghanistan to attack agricultural fields in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it was reported on Friday.
Crop losses have been reported in several areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, particularly in Dera Ismail Khan district, from where these locust swarms were entering Punjab thereby posing a serious threat to the food basket of the country, said the Dawn news report.
Winding up the debate on locusts in the National Assembly on Thursday, Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhr Imam said the government was keeping a vigil on the movement of swarms of desert locusts entering Pakistan from four countries: Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti via Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Iran. (IANS)