The Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection ( Ministry of Agriculture and Environment ) has just sent an official dispatch to the Department of Agriculture and Environment of the northern mountainous provinces and North Central Coast on preventing and controlling locusts that damage bamboo, reed and agricultural crops.
Closely monitor the movement and damage caused by adult bamboo locusts, proactively organize effective prevention and control, and limit their movement and damage to many places.
Localities, especially communes where bamboo locusts frequently appear and cause damage, need to proactively develop plans, strategies, and resources. budget, fully prepare conditions of materials and human resources, ready for the work of preventing and eliminating bamboo locusts as soon as they appear.
Direct local media agencies to coordinate with specialized agencies to disseminate information and guide forest owners and people to detect and handle locust nests early to avoid spraying. pesticides rampant causing waste and affecting the ecological environment.
At the same time, the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection requires local professional units to maintain an information system, report early to coordinate timely direction; regularly synthesize and report the situation of emergence and development of bamboo locusts causing damage to crops and the direction of prevention and control to the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection (through the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection) for timely handling.
According to the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection, since the beginning of the year, the average temperature in the midland and mountainous areas of the North has been lower than the average of many years (down 0.5-1 degrees Celsius) accompanied by many days of light rain and prolonged drizzle. Since mid-May, the return of intense heat has created favorable conditions for locusts to emerge earlier than in previous years.
On May 22, the People's Committee of Cao Bang province announced a bamboo locust epidemic that damaged forest trees and agricultural crops in Nguyen Binh, Hoa An and Thach An districts.
In Quang Binh , in early June, for the first time, Bo Trach district recorded high density of bamboo locusts, causing severe local damage.
Previously, since 2008, bamboo locusts have frequently broken out, causing damage in some northern mountainous provinces and the North Central Coast. The total area of locust damage each year is from 1,000-4,000 hectares, mainly on bamboo plants (bamboo, reed, rattan, etc.). In particular, when the density is high, they also cause damage to some agricultural crops such as: upland rice, corn, tobacco, banana, and arrowroot.
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