{"id":9208,"date":"2020-04-14T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:59","slug":"coronavirus-hits-locust-fight-as-pesticide-deliveries-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/04\/14\/coronavirus-hits-locust-fight-as-pesticide-deliveries-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Hits Locust Fight As Pesticide Deliveries Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fight against desert locusts has been dealt a major blow as shortage of pesticides and motorised sprayers grips the market amid supply chain disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Cyril Ferrand, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) resilience team leader for East Africa, the interference is slowing down the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe biggest challenge is delays in pesticide deliveries due to a significant reduction in global air freight operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes barely a week after the FAO warned that locust population would multiply 20 times during the rainy season unless control is stepped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New swarms are expected to hatch in May coming from the first generation in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe first generation of locusts is now breeding, they have laid their eggs; they will be hatching into nymphs and hoppers,\u201d said FAO representative to Kenya Tobias Takavarasha in an interview with Thomson Reuters Foundation last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Ferrand added that the organisation is working round the clock to ensure pesticide stocks in the affected countries do not run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat would be dramatic for rural populations whose livelihoods and food security depend on the success of our control campaign,\u201d he said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/markets\/marketnews\/Coronavirus-hits-locust-fight-as-pesticide-deliveries-delay\/3815534-5523050-y3d13z\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fight against desert locusts has been dealt a major blow as shortage of pesticides and motorised sprayers grips the market amid supply chain disruption. According to Cyril Ferrand, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[455,509,610,961],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-covid-19","tag-east-africa","tag-fao","tag-locust-invasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}