China News Service, March 9th: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the General Administration of Customs, and the National Forestry and Grass Bureau recently issued the "Desert Locust and Domestic Locust Monitoring and Control Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), stating that the overall goal is "two efforts to ensure "Efforts will be made to ensure that the desert locusts do not move into the country and cause harm, and strive to ensure that domestic locusts do not outbreak and become catastrophic, and strive to capture a well-off year's grain harvest and effectively safeguard ecological security.
The data map is January 21, 2020 local time, in the village of Larisoro near Archers Post, Kenya, locusts flew over the bushes.
The specific target is to reach 100% monitoring coverage and emergency control and disposal rate of desert locusts in the border area; 90% of domestic locust control and treatment rate; 80% of soil locust control and treatment rate in agricultural and pastoral areas; and overall damage loss control. Within 5%.
Since this year, rare outbreaks of desert locusts have occurred in East Africa and Southwest Asia, posing a serious threat to local food and agricultural production. Although expert analysis believes that the probability of desert locusts migrating and invading China is very small, it is still necessary to proceed from the bottom line thinking and risk awareness to coordinate the domestic and foreign locust control work.
The "Plan" proposes the following monitoring and control measures:
(1) Regarding the monitoring and control of desert locusts abroad. In accordance with the prevention strategy of “locating locusts overseas and preparing for war in the territory”, strengthen monitoring and early warning of pest conditions in areas that may be moved into Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, etc., and set up 500,000 acres of emergency control tasks according to the risk of moving in. A professional prevention and control team shall be set up to reserve emergency prevention and control materials, and once it is relocated to the country, emergency prevention and control shall be started immediately. The agriculture, rural, customs, and forestry and grassland departments will do a good job of monitoring the agricultural areas, forests, grasslands and ports, as well as entry quarantine, according to their respective areas of responsibility.
1. Set up monitoring stations in border areas with encryption. Along the China-India, China-Pakistan, China-Myanmar border line, focusing on the risk areas along the traffic lines and lower mountain passes and river valleys, a batch of monitoring points will be set up within counties within 200 kilometers. Control the movement of desert locusts. Yunnan will focus on at least 15 monitoring points in China-Myanmar, China-Laos border areas such as Nujiang, Dehong, Lincang, Xishuangbanna, Baoshan; Tibet will focus on at least 9 monitoring areas in China-India and China-Nepal border areas such as Linzhi, Shannan, and Xigaze. Xinjiang will focus on at least 5 monitoring points in China-Pakistan border areas such as Kashgar and Hotan. At each site, a special person is arranged to observe the immigration situation, and at the same time mobilize the masses to do a good job of monitoring. Once the locust situation is found, report it as soon as possible. Locations were completed at the end of March, and observations were carried out in April-August according to the season of desert locust occurrence. Forest and pastoral areas are monitored as appropriate for possible migration paths of desert locusts.
2. Establish a professional team for emergency prevention. The agricultural and rural departments will establish 50 emergency prevention and control teams (30 in Yunnan, 10 in Tibet and Xinjiang each) by relying on socialized service organizations in frontier areas where desert locusts may migrate to China by the end of March. Each team should be equipped with high-efficiency pesticide application machinery according to the daily operating capacity of not less than 2000 acres. Organize training on prevention and control technology, conduct emergency control drills, form a rapid response capability, and find that locusts that have moved into the desert are immediately organized for culling. Forestry and grass departments set up prevention teams in key areas and make necessary preparations for prevention.
3. Reserve emergency prevention materials in advance. According to the implementation of the emergency control plan of 500,000 mu (300,000 mu in Yunnan, 100,000 mu in Tibet and Xinjiang each), reserve 50-60 tons of malathion, beta-cypermethrin and other road control agents in advance. Yunnan will be in place by the end of March. Tibet Xinjiang will be delivered to the county by the end of April. At the same time, guide pesticide production enterprises to produce in a timely manner, and once desert locusts have migrated in large numbers, production and supply will be accelerated. It is suitable for the area where aircraft is operated. Contact relevant enterprises in advance to prepare for aviation operations, and respond to emergencies such as large-scale migration and entry of desert locusts.
4. Strengthen international cooperation in desert locust control. Pay close attention to and keep abreast of developments in the development of desert locusts abroad, strengthen communication with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Pakistan, and Myanmar, establish an information exchange mechanism, and predict the possibility of relocation into China in advance. Sharing China ’s locust disaster management experience with the “Belt and Road” countries, responding to requests for locust disaster management assistance from Pakistan and other countries, actively providing prevention and control technology and necessary prevention and control material support, reducing the risk of desert locust migration and invasion, and increasing China ’s international influence.
5. Strengthen port monitoring and entry quarantine. Strengthen the monitoring of epidemic situation at entry ports, strengthen the plant quarantine of inbound goods and transportation vehicles in Africa, India and Pakistan, and strictly prevent desert locust eggs, larvae and adults from entering the country through the port. Once found, they will be immediately disinfected.
(2) Monitoring and control of locusts in domestic agricultural areas. Comprehensively investigate the hidden dangers of domestic locusts, improve the level of preparation for prevention and control according to the moderately severe occurrence, prepare for 10-12 million mu of prevention and control, implement chemical emergency prevention and control in high-density occurrence areas, and implement biological control and ecological control in low- and medium-density occurrence areas. To ensure that the migratory locusts do not take off and cause disasters, the local locusts do not spread.
1. Troubleshoot locusts in key areas. A comprehensive investigation of 20 million acres of migratory locust breeding areas, including Asian migratory locust occurrence areas (Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, and Jilin), East Asian migratory locust occurrence areas (Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Tianjin, Hainan and other 10 provinces), and Tibetan migratory locusts Occurrence areas (Tibet, Sichuan, and Qinghai), Locust occurrence areas (Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hebei, etc.).
2. Improve the locust emergency control facilities and equipment. Maintenance of three locust-specific airports in Huangpi of Hebei, Dongying of Shandong and Tacheng of Xinjiang, with a focus on repairing airport runways, drug stores, professional aviation spray equipment, fire fighting equipment, etc. to ensure the normal use of equipment and emergency operation capabilities. Investigate the use of facilities and equipment of locust emergency control stations in key areas, check for leaks and repair defects, repair and maintain machinery, and maintain normal emergency control capabilities.
3. Improve the prevention and control capabilities of emergency teams. Strengthen the construction of emergency control teams in key locust-occurring areas such as Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong and Xinjiang. Before May, complete the establishment of 4-5 locust emergency response professional service teams, equipped with corresponding operating machinery and prevention and control supplies, and conduct an emergency drill to form an effective force to control locusts that is "pulled, available, and controllable" . When a large area occurs, a combination of unified defense rule, joint defense and joint control, and group defense and group governance is adopted to comprehensively control the harm.
4. Organize and dispatch reserves for prevention and control. Prepare 800 tons of malathion, beta-cypermethrin, Metarhizium and microsporidium in accordance with the planned control tasks in advance. Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other 16 provinces (districts, municipalities) ) Early maintenance and application of the spraying machinery, and timely supplementation of inadequate areas to ensure the needs of locust control.
(3) Monitoring and control of grassland locusts in China. According to the general idea of emergency prevention and control core areas, continuous prevention and control of proliferation areas, and close monitoring of occasional areas, the hidden dangers of locust disasters in major grasslands in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Sichuan and other regions were investigated. Focusing on migratory locusts such as the Siberian locust, 45 million mu of grassland locusts are planned to be controlled.
1. Strengthen monitoring and early warning. Relying on the four-level monitoring and early warning system, professional and technical personnel are organized to conduct routine investigations, route investigations, and fixed monitoring data collection in-depth on the spot, give full play to the role of farmers and herdsmen's reporters as "scouts" and "outposts", and carry out key periods, key areas, Monitor important locusts to keep abreast of developments. Continuous attention should be paid to disaster-prone areas. In counties where locusts have an area of more than 500,000 mu per year, do a good job of investigating the bases of spring locust eggs overwintering and locust pupae unearthed, and find out the numbers. Real-time grasp of the situation and guide prevention and control.
2. Prepare for prevention and control materials. In key locust-occurring areas, overhaul or purchase a batch of facilities and equipment for operation to ensure the integrity of airport runways and medicine depots. Urgently organize the procurement and storage of a batch of locust-controlling agents such as Beauveria bassiana, Beauveria bassiana, and pyrethroids, and make preparations for aircraft and ground equipment operations according to local conditions.
3. Strengthen emergency response. Refine prevention and control plans, strengthen departmental coordination, regional coordination, and coordination from top to bottom, and actively promote unified defense rule, joint defense and joint control, and group defense and group control. Strengthen the construction of grassland locust specialized control service teams, strengthen technical integration and skills training, and improve the level of mechanization, specialization and standardization of locust control.
4. Strengthen the monitoring of locusts on the border between China, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. Focus on cross-border migratory locust population dynamics, and respond well. From June to August, we will focus on the migration of Asian locusts from Mongolia to Mongolia, and Asian migratory locusts and Italian migratory locusts from Kazakhstan to our country's Xinjiang. We will pay close attention to the trend of low air flow, and make preparations for prevention and control at key migration sites .