{"id":62127,"date":"2020-03-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62127"},"modified":"2020-02-28T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:18:55","slug":"imported-chinese-ducks-save-crops-locust-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imported-chinese-ducks-save-crops-locust-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Imported Chinese ducks to save crops from locust attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: China has decided to send 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help save the country\u2019s agriculture sector against continuing bouts of locust attacks, a news source reported. As per sources, this is the largest infestation of locusts experienced by the country in a decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Chinese firms locating business centres in the country: Razak Dawood (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chinese-firms-locating-business-centres-country-razak-dawood.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese firms locating business centres in the country <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chinese-firms-locating-business-centres-country-razak-dawood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Chinese firms locating business centres in the country: Razak Dawood (opens in a new tab)\">&#8211;<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Chinese firms locating business centres in the country: Razak Dawood (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chinese-firms-locating-business-centres-country-razak-dawood.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Razak Dawood<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report published in \u2018The Times\u2019, ducks are the\nnatural enemies of locusts. They previously helped in countering a locust invasion\nin the Sincan Uygur Autonomous Region 20 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the article, a senior researcher at the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences had revealed that ducks were more effective than pesticides in countering locusts; stating that one duck could eat over 200 locusts per day (based on an experiment conducted to test ducks\u2019 searching and predation capabilities). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-offers-extension-agriculture-power-consumers-pay-fpa-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt offers extension to agriculture power consumers to pay FPA charges (opens in a new tab)\">Govt offers extension to agriculture power consumers to pay FPA charges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China plans to send the ducks to Pakistan at the end of this\nyear or by early 2021. Chinese officials are also expected to lend technical\nsupport to Pakistani authorities for fighting the infestation effectively. The said\nepidemic has destroyed significant volumes of crops in Sindh and Balochistan\nsince October last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Member National Assembly (MNA) Riaz Pirzada has revealed that Pakistan has already entered the \u2018third category\u2019 phase \u2013 in terms of the locust attack rating. He added that the country was not far from entering the last (fourth) category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/drought-resistant-crops-proposed-for-sindh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Drought-resistant crops proposed for Sindh (opens in a new tab)\">Drought-resistant crops proposed for Sindh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, climate change and local weather\nconditions play a significant role in locust breeding. In the past, locust\nswarms in the south of the country followed a migration pattern towards Iran\nafter a while. However, this did not happen this time due to lower ambient temperatures;\nwhich caused them to breed and multiply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: China has decided to send 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help save the country\u2019s agriculture sector against continuing bouts of locust attacks, a news source reported. As per sources, this is the largest infestation of locusts experienced by the country in a decade. Read: Chinese firms locating business centres in the country &#8211; Razak Dawood According to a report published in \u2018The Times\u2019, ducks are the natural enemies of locusts. They previously helped in countering a locust invasion in the Sincan Uygur Autonomous Region 20 years ago. As per the article, a senior researcher at the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences had revealed that ducks were more effective than pesticides in countering locusts; stating that one duck could eat over 200 locusts per day (based on an experiment conducted to test ducks\u2019 searching and predation capabilities). Read: Govt offers extension to agriculture power consumers to pay FPA charges China plans to send the ducks to Pakistan at the end of this year or by early 2021. Chinese officials are also expected to lend technical support to Pakistani authorities for fighting the infestation effectively. The said epidemic has destroyed significant volumes of crops in Sindh and Balochistan since October last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":62137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012],"tags":[21493],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"tag-locust-attack-measures-in-pakistan","9":"cat-15012-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Imported Chinese ducks to save crops from locust attack - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"China has decided to send 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help save the country\u2019s agriculture sector against continuing bouts of locust attacks.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imported-chinese-ducks-save-crops-locust-attack.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Imported Chinese ducks to save crops from locust attack - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"China has decided to send 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help save the country\u2019s agriculture sector against continuing bouts of locust attacks.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imported-chinese-ducks-save-crops-locust-attack.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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