Emergency Transboundary Outbreak Pest (ETOP) Situation Report for April with a Forecast till mid-June, 2011
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Summary
In April, Desert Locust (SGR 1 ) persisted in northwestern Mauritania and on the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia where a second generation breeding occurred, but declined in Egypt and Sudan. Control operations treated more than 24,000 ha mostly in Saudi Arabia, Mauritania and Egypt. A few hundred hectares were also treated in Algeria and Morocco. No locusts were detected during surveys carried out in eastern Ethiopia and coastal areas in Eritrea, Yemen or Oman and Small-scale breeding occurred in western Pakistan and southeastern Iran during this period. No surveys were carried out in Mali, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia and Chad and no reports were received from Libya during this period (CNLA/Mauritania, CNLAA/Morocco,
DLCO-EA, DLMCC/Yemen,
DPPQS/India, FAO-DLIS, INPV/Algeria,
PPD/Ethiopia, and PPD/Sudan).