25 UAF students to be sent to control locusts.

FAISALABAD -- Twenty-five postgraduate students of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) would be sent to different areas of the country to control locusts and guide farming community about combat strategy. This was stated by Secretary National Food Security Omar Hamid Khan while addressing the inaugural session of a training workshop to combat locust, jointly arranged by the Ministry and the UAF at the Syndicate Room. Omar said that the ministry would send 10 UAF students to Balochistan and rest of them to Tharparkar and Cholistan under Locust Combat Program. He said that a national locust control centre had been set up in collaboration with NDMA in order to eradicate locusts by mapping out a fruitful strategy. He said that six aircraft would be specified for field work for locust control. He said that tangible measures were being taken to control locust. He...

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