Algeria Prepares to Fight Locust Plague
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ALGIERS, Algeria — This North African nation has drawn up battle lines to combat billions of desert locusts that have invaded nearly 2 million acres of the Sahara and pose a serious threat to the country’s crops.
The official news agency APS said 1.35 million acres had been treated with pesticides by last Tuesday.
A vast locust eradication campaign is in progress in coordination with neighboring Tunisia and Morocco.
Fighting the worst locust plague in North Africa for 30 years is an “almost superhuman task,” according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
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