CM reviews measures against locusts

CM says more pesticides should be imported

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar presided over a meeting to review measures taken against locusts in Bahawalpur division. While giving directions for taking preventive measures, he said that the departments concerned should remain alert in Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan districts to save crops. He said that aerial sprays should be done to control locust attacks and added that helicopters should be hired to expand the scope of the aerial spray.

Surveillance should be conducted on a daily basis and a campaign should be carried out against the attack on crops. He said that more pesticides should be imported according to the need.   

Published in The Express Tribune, August 2^nd, 2019.