The southern regions of Libya are witnessing a wide invasion of the Sahrawi locusts, which led to the damage of large areas of agricultural crops and the vegetation of vegetation is greatly damaged.
In the absence of the capabilities necessary to combat this scourge, fears of an environmental crisis are exacerbated by the effects of food security in the country.
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The Libyan Center for Desert Research and Development of Sahrawi Communities stated, after a field visit to assess the size of the damage, that farmers in the south are facing serious challenges as a result of the heavy spread of the locusts, stressing that the available capabilities, such as small spray cars, do not rise to confront this increasing danger.
For his part, a spokesman for the National Locust Control Committee, Hussein Al -Braiki, warned that locusts entered the intermarriage and laying eggs, which may exacerbate the situation unless urgent measures are taken.
In the same context, the Chairman of the Southern Restructural Committee, Major General Jamal Al -Amami, chaired an expanded meeting in the city of Targhan, during which the formation of an emergency room to combat locusts was announced, with the aim of coordinating efforts between the competent authorities, with a phased plan aimed at eliminating new reproductive foci.
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It is noteworthy that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) classifies desert locusts as one of the most dangerous pests on agricultural production, noting that one swarm, with an area of square kilometer, may include 80 million locusts capable of consuming the equivalent of 35,000 people in one day.
