(Original title: Yunnan Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau launches desert locust prevention and control will set up hundreds of monitoring points to strictly prevent desert locust invasion)
On March 4, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Yunnan Province issued a notice requiring the competent forestry and grassland departments in all localities to fully understand the risk of desert locust invasion and the serious harm after the invasion, effectively strengthen organizational leadership, make early arrangements for monitoring, early warning and prevention and control work, take effective measures to effectively respond to the risk of desert locust invasion in Yunnan, do a good job in the prevention and control of desert locusts and other grassland locusts, and ensure the ecological safety of Yunnan.
Start desert locust monitoring
According to the opinions of the expert group, Yunnan will lay out 110-120 desert locust monitoring points, start desert locust monitoring, and build a monitoring and forecasting network that integrates "sky and ground" and combines dots, lines and surfaces, so as to achieve early deployment, early detection and early control, and strictly prevent desert locust invasion, colonization and further spread to other regions in the country. At the same time, timely carry out the mapping and screening of the professional team and number of locust prevention and control teams, pesticides that can be safely used, aircraft, etc., so as to carry out targeted prevention and control at different levels and in stages.
The Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau demanded that forestry and grassland departments at all levels should promptly set up leading institutions and expert groups for prevention and control in light of their own actual conditions, formulate emergency plans for the prevention and control of desert locusts, strengthen comprehensive cooperation with agricultural and rural departments, and pay close attention to making preparations for reserves such as locust control agents, equipment, and funds. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of emergency response teams, strengthen pre-planned drills, and once a disaster occurs, it can respond quickly and minimize disaster losses.
Release early warning information in a timely manner
The Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau stressed that the competent forestry and grassland departments in all localities should strengthen monitoring, make timely research and judgment on the occurrence of desert locusts, and do a good job in monitoring desert locusts in a targeted manner. It is necessary to actively carry out inter-regional cooperation, strengthen the sharing of information, resources, and technology, fully grasp the trends that occur on the surface and point of the desert locust, and ensure the efficient and coordinated development of the work. It is necessary to strictly implement the insect situation reporting system, start the locust monitoring and reporting system and the duty system in a timely manner in accordance with the migration and development of grassland locusts, and issue early warning information in a timely manner, and timely report changes in the desert locust situation, so as to provide a basis for carrying out prevention and control decisions.
On 11 February, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued a global warning of the desert locust plague, which has spread from East Africa to India and Pakistan. Experts have determined that if the climatic conditions are suitable, there is a risk that the desert locust will invade Tibet directly from Pakistan and India, or into Yunnan through Myanmar, or into Xinjiang through Kazakhstan. In this regard, the Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau specifically requested the forestry and grassland departments of Honghe, Wenshan, Nujiang, Baoshan, Dehong, Lincang, Pu'er, Xishuangbanna and other 8 prefectures (cities) bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, and the forestry and grassland departments of Deqin County and Weixi County adjacent to Tibet to strengthen horizontal contacts and communication with agricultural and rural departments, pay close attention to the development of desert locusts, and do a good job of monitoring. Reporter Yang Zhigao correspondent Wang Zhongmei Wang Jiachun
Source: Sina Yunnan
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