Zimbabwe: Govt On High Alert Against Locust Outbreak

Zimbabwe should continue to take anticipatory measures and preparatory steps to fight swarms of locusts in case fresh outbreaks in the coming 20/21 cropping season, a senior plant crop disease expert has said.

Shingirai Nyamutukwa, head of the Plant Quarantine & Plant Protection Research Services Institute of the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement told The Herald yesterday that even though no swarms had been seen in recent days following a locust outbreak in the Gonarezhou National Park last month, the country should continue to carry out pest surveillance.

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