Army of ducks ready to fight locust swarm

Chinese duck platoons are waiting to be deployed Pakistan to fight swarms of crop-eating pests that threaten regional food security.

At least 100,000 ducks are expected to be sent to Pakistan in the second half of 2020 to combat a desert locust outbreak, according to Lu Lizhi, a senior researcher with the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The ducks are “biological weapons” and can be more effective than pesticide, said Lu, who is in charge of the project in tandem with a university in Pakistan.

Swarms of locusts have spread through countries from eastern Africa to South Asia, destroying crops and pastures at a voracious pace. This plague, along with unseasonal rain and a scourge of low quality seeds, has hit major crops in Pakistan’s largest producing regions, weighing on its already fragile economy. And it has migrated into India.

Chinese agricultural experts visited Pakistan this week to help control the locusts as the plague moves eastwards, according to a report posted on the website of China’s consulate-general in Karachi.

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