FAO: aircrafts to be brought into action the invading locusts

The FAO’s campaign against resumptions of migrating locust invasions develops from 2013 to the year 2016. Back in 2012, the invasion rose concerns over nearly two third of the national territory, and threatened some 13 million people with starvation. Things may have been changing ever since; still, the FAO reports that one the Great Isle’s western zones stretching from Soalala (Northwest) and the southern Mahafaly highlands still remain in locust hands. The FAO’s assessment comes to the understanding that an airborne attack, in addition to the on going and uninterrupted efforts on the ground, would constitute the most efficient way to crush the looming locust invasion. 478 000 Ha of land have so far been secured. 1.5 millions Ha are still to be treated from 2013 to 2014 in the run of this campaign dubbed as a “lengthy process” by the FAO itself. The currently led campaign against locust invasions had to be tackled basically in order to make up for the wanting action of a monitoring system poorly supported by a transitional ruling power excessively focused on its struggle to keep in control in the capital city. Each and every foreign partner had to bring contribution in order to avert the worst, since locust vanguards were dangerously nearing Antananarivo city’s outskirts by then.