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China to dispatch first batch of supplies to help Pakistan in controlling locust disaster

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China to dispatch first batch of supplies to help Pakistan in controlling locust disaster
March 8, 2020
BEIJING, March 8 (APP):China will dispatch the first batch of supplies to Karachi to assist the Pakistani authorities in controlling the locust disaster.

The first batch of the aid materials, to be dispatched on Monday will include 50,000 liters of pesticides and 14 air-powered high-efficiency remote sprayers, according to China Economic Net here on Sunday.

In order to help the locust eradication in Pakistan, an expert group led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Grassland Management Department of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center, China Agricultural University and Shandong Plant Protection Station has already visited Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab province from February 23 to March 4.

The expert group previously stated that in response to the Pakistani disaster relief materials and lack of experience, China has formulated a detailed assistance and training plan, emergency deployment of disaster prevention materials including pesticides, spraying vehicles, monitoring equipment to assist Pakistan which will arrive in Pakistan as soon as possible.

According to the expert group, in the current large-scale outbreak of the locust disaster in Pakistan, the spraying of chemical pesticides and biological pesticides is more conducive to the emergency treatment of locust disasters.

The experts believe that the next four to six weeks will be a critical period for the eradication of locusts in Balochistan.

The Chinese officials have expressed the belief that with the joint efforts of both sides, China and Pakistan will win the two battles of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the locust crisis.

It may be mentioned here that immediately after the outbreak of China’s new corona pneumonia, Pakistan immediately collected a batch of stock masks, protective clothing and gloves from public hospitals across the country and sent military aircraft to China.

https://www.app.com.pk/china-to-dis...help-pakistan-in-controlling-locust-disaster/
 
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what happened to the ducks? I thought it was a good idea to fatten the ducks with locusts and then eat them.
I guess logistic issue. It's not easy to transport 100000 ducks to and there distant place plus many may not survive the long distant given many will be pack like sardine.
 
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what happened to the ducks? I thought it was a good idea to fatten the ducks with locusts and then eat them.
Friend, that was fake news. China will always use the established methods (pesticides) rather than experimental methods (ducks) to help others. Ducks are aquatic birds so it would be very difficult for them to adjust to hot, dry desert conditions.

Mainstream media outlets ran a fake news story that China was sending 100,000 locust-eating ducks to Pakistan

https://reclaimthenet.org/locusts-ducks-china-fake-news/

The news that China was about to send 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to fight a locust invasion spread on the internet like wildfire.

And not merely in Twitter and Facebook feeds of ordinary users, where you might expect such extravagant, if not obviously suspect, information to proliferate.

Instead, this now-debunked piece of fake news, originally reported by China's Ningbo Evening News, was picked up by the guardians of truth – everyone from Bloomberg to the BBC.

The story spread like wildfire online before the Associated Press's update finally questioned the veracity of the story.

It turns out, ducks don't usually eat locusts – and even if they did, 100,000 of them would be so few to make any kind of difference.

Google now displays ten pages of results for the search terms 100,000 ducks China Pakistan locusts – and that's just over the last day.

The gist of the article by the Ningbo Evening News was that a waterfowl “army” would be sent to Pakistan to eat locusts that are currently ravaging this Asian country.

Chinese experts have already been sent to Pakistan to help local authorities deal with the infestation that started last year.

Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV has tried to receive confirmation of the intent to assemble a duck army and dispatch it to Pakistan.

Apparently, as of Thursday, the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Agricultural Technology, whose researchers were cited in the original report, couldn't confirm the story.

Chinese officials said the news was “nonsense.”

On the outside, most of the leading English language media are committed to the point of obsession to warning about fake news and misinformation, and promoting practices like fact-checking.

But when an opportunity to publish a clickbait headline arises, their journalistic standards are abandoned.

Time magazine, Bloomberg, the Independent, the Daily Mail – they all went for the phrase “duck army” in those headlines.

The BBC was not shy to report about “preparations” now underway in China of 100,000 anti-locust ducks and the Telegraph was not far behind with a similarly entitled article.

 
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Latest situation in grasshopper invasion in Asia
 
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They shall make a massive be fan blade killing machine. Any insect flying thru it will be chopped into pieces.
 
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Ah, would love to see fuel air bombs going off intercepting these buggers.
 
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