AIBAK (Pajhwok): Around 10,000 hectares of land in northern Samangan province would be cleared of locusts as a result of a campaign that kicked off on Sunday, an official said.
Senior agriculture official Gulabuddin Ghayasi told Pajhwok Afghan News the locusts had left their eggs on agriculture lands in different areas in the past one year.
The grasshoppers have started to come out of eggs in Aibak and Hazrat Sultan district, he said. During the locust eradication drive 8,000 litres of insecticide would be sprayed . . .
